Asylum seeker jailed with 15-month-old baby after Switzerland returned her to Turkey

A woman who was seeking asylum in Switzerland but was deported to Turkey despite her lawyer’s warnings that she faced a high risk of imprisonment over her pro-Kurdish political expression was detained upon arrival in Turkey and later jailed pending trial with her 15-month-old baby, the Bianet news website reported Thursday. Bahar Yalçınkaya was deported […] The post Asylum seeker jailed with 15-month-old baby after Switzerland returned her to Turkey appeared first on Stockholm Center for Free...

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