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Kurdish-American Ibrahim Parlak Accused of PKK-affiliation Faces Deportation to Turkey

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Mr. Ibrahim Parlak, a 52-year-old Kurdish restaurant owner from Michigan, USA, faces possible deportation to Turkey where he was imprisoned and tortured before fleeing to the United States in the early 1990s. Mr. Parlak was active in the Kurdish rights …

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Kurdish political prisoner transferred to solitary confinement in Iran

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Ghader Mohammadzadeh, a Kurdish political prisoner, has been transferred to solitary confinement of a central prison in Urmiye, the Human Rights Activists News Agency reports. The reason for the transfer is unknown. According to the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center …

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Political prisoner dies in Iran due to severe torture

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Source: Iranian Political prisoners Association A Kurdish political activist, Kaveh Azizpour, has died in a hospital in west Iran after undergoing a double operation on May 16, 2008. He was reported to have been severely tortured in a so-called detention …

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