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November 2, 2011

Human Rights Watch Condemns Turkey For Imprisoning Pro-Kurdish Intellectuals 
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Human Rights Watch is condemning a Turkish court decision to imprison a
publisher and a political science professor as part of a crackdown on
members of the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party. Since October 27,
at least 50 people have been arrested for having links to Kurdish
organizations. Over the past two and a half years, thousands of people
associated with the Peace and Democracy Party or related political
circles have been charged for alleged links to outlawed Kurdish groups.
Emma Sinclair-Webb of Human Rights Watch said, “We are seeing the
Turkish police casting the net ever wider in the crackdown on legal
pro-Kurdish politics."



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