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Kurdish journalist Emrullah Acar
CALLS are growing for the immediate release of jailed Kurdish journalist Emrullah Acar, who was taken into custody last Friday following a raid on his home in Turkey’s Urfa province.
The Mesopotamia Agency (MA) reporter is being interrogated by the Malatya Security Directorate and lawyers confirmed today that his period of detention had been extended by four days.
The charges against him are unknown, with the public prosecutor’s office having placed a confidentiality order on his case, as is common practice when the Turkish authorities are taking action against journalists or political opponents.
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Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER