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Turkish appeals court upholds Kurdish asylum-seeker’s sentence
The second branch of the Court of Appeals in Van, south-eastern Turkey, has upheld the six-year, three-month prison sentence handed down to Kurdish environmental activist and former political prisoner Mahyar Ahmadi from Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province. Ahmadi, who was arrested on 12 September 2023 by Turkish border guards at the border between the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Turkey, was sentenced by a Turkish court in...
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Turkish court sentences Kurdish asylum-seeker to over six years in jail
A Turkish court in Hakkari, in south-east Turkey, has sentenced Kurdish environmental activist and former political prisoner Mahyar Ahmadi, from Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, to six years and three months in prison. The court charged Ahmadi with "membership of one of the Kurdish opposition parties", the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) has learned. Ahmadi was arrested on 12 September by Turkish border guards at the border between...
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