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Turkish cartoonist gets one-year jail sentence for insulting Moses in drawings: report

Turkish cartoonist gets one-year jail sentence for insulting Moses in drawings: report

by TurkeyPurge | May 24, 2018 | Today in Crackdown

An İstanbul court has sentenced cartoonist Seyfi Şahin to one year, 15 days in prison for “insulting sacred values” in a cartoon featuring the biblical prophet Moses. The ruling was made by the Küçükçekmece 2nd Penal Court of First Instance on Thursday. In...

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