Sweden: Kurdish activist arrested, ‘I will be deported to Turkey’

(ANSA) – ROME, AUGUST 21 – Sweden has arrested the Kurdish activist Zinar Bozkurt who could now be extradited to Turkey. This was announced by the Swedish newspaper Etc, to which the 26-year-old said: “Now I am deported”. Zinar, a member of the Kurdish party HDP, homosexual, took refuge in Sweden at the age of 18 to escape political persecution in Ankara.

Diem25, the trans-European party headed by economist Yanis Varoufakis, denounced on Twitter that “this is the price that the Swedish government has agreed to pay in order to join NATO: sell off the Kurdish people: we ask Sweden to respect their rights humans and to free Zinar Bozkurt “. And on the social platform, many users are already making the same appeal with the hashtag #StopDeportingZinarBozkurt (ANSA).

Source: Ansa

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