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– Turkey should implement ECtHR ruling and release journalists Mehmet Altan and Şahin Alpay (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News March 23, 2018

The Court found that the journalists' rights to liberty, security and free expression had been violated and that the two men should be released.
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