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Turkey To Retry Kurdish Activist Leyla Zana

HeadlineJul 14, 2004

A Turkish court has ordered the retrial of Kurdish rights leader Leyla Zana and three other former Kurdish MPs who were freed last month after a decade in prison. The court found that the four did not receive a fair trial in 1994 and overturned their convictions. Zana ran afoul with the law after she spoke in the banned Kurdish language while she was being sworn into the Turkish parliament. She was also accused of having ties to banned Kurdish groups. Meanwhile police in Turkey are pressing for new charges to be filed against Zana and the three others for speaking Kurdish at a recent political rally in violation of Turkish law.

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