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– First jail sentence in Kurdish newspaper solidarity trials (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News May 23, 2017

RSF is alarmed to see that the Turkish authorities are stepping up their persecution of those who took part in a campaign of solidarity with the pro-Kurdish daily Özgür Gündem and that, for the first time, they have imposed an actual prison sentence on a participant.
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