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Kurdish journalist faces 5 years' jail time over social media posts
KURDISH journalist Aziz Oruc faces five years behind bars on terrorism charges after he shared news articles he had written for the Dicle news agency.
He was detained on December 11 and held in custody on charges of “being a member of a terrorist organisation.”
Mr Oruc was trying to make his way to Europe via Iran when he was detained at the border crossing and beaten by the Armenian police.
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