Journalist Faces Retrial for Insulting Turkishness
am 05.05.2006 von http://lawjustice.blogspot.com
A Turkish appeals court has rejected a prosecutors recommendation and has ruled that charges still stand against Hrant Dink, a high-profile Turkish-Armenian journalist and editor of the newspaper Agos who has written about the Armenian genocide. JURIST has more.
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