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THE Kurdish poet Ilhan Sami Comak was arrested in 1994 while he was still a student, and charged with membership of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
After 19 days of torture, he signed a confession and was sentenced to death for the crime of “separatism.” The sentence was later commuted to life.
The European Court of Human Rights has since ruled that the conviction was unlawful. Although he has twice appealed against his conviction, both appeals were unsuccessful.
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