In August police confiscated the Women Pensioners’ Union booklet Voice and Courage, which published speeches from a conference on sexual assault and rape in custody, and officials of the group were charged with “insulting the security forces.” The High Council for Radio and Television (R.T.U.K.) temporarily or permanently suspended scores of independent broadcasters and in August banned BBC World Service and Deutsche Welle on the grounds that they “threatened national security.”
Various legal pretexts were used to prevent broadcasting and education in minority languages, calling into question whether the 2001 constitutional amendments ostensibly lifting the broadcasting ban would be fully implemented. Local governors prohibited the use of Kurdish street names and banned plays, cassettes, and films in Kurdish on the grounds that they were “separatist.” The ban on wearing the headscarf was applied with increasing severity against students and civil servants and extended to private universities. A change in regulations prohibited any student wearing a headscarf from sitting for the June university examinations, a move that human rights groups criticized as violating the students’ right to freedom of religion, conscience, and thought. Teachers and doctors were also dismissed for wearing the headscarf on duty.
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