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Leyla Guven
FORMER Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MP Leyla Guven was sentenced to 22 years and three months in prison today.
She was not present in court as the judge issued a warrant for her arrest after she was sentenced at Diyarbakir’s 9th high criminal court on 18 separate charges.
Ms Guven has been described “as the embodiment of Kurdish women and the face of the resistance” in Turkey for her resolute stance against the ruling government of autocratic President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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