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Kurdish journalist and writer testifies to police over her COVID-19 coverage

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Kurdish journalist, writer and activist Nurcan Baysal was summoned by the police on March 30 to testify for sharing prisoners’ letters and two articles on the novel coronavirus pandemic. Baysal was released after giving her testimony.

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