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Global appeal marks 1,000 days behind bars for Nedim Türfent (Demo)

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By HRNJ-Uganda International Media News February 6, 2019

Journalist and poet Nedim Türfent was sentenced to eight years and nine months in jail in December 2017 on trumped-up terrorism charges.
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