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Security law used to punish editor with 21-year prison sentence

By Free Media Online · February 17, 2010 · Comments Off
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International Freedom of Expression eXchange: A Kurdish editor was sentenced to over 21 years in prison on 9 February by a Turkish court for publishing reports and pictures of the banned Turkey Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), report the Istanbul-based IPS Communication Foundation (BIANET), the International Press Institute (IPI) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF).

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Security law used to punish editor with 21-year prison sentence

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