Turkey jails Kurdish politician’s wife over miscarriage form ‘typo’
by Bethan McKernan in Istanbul from World news | The Guardian on (#5RV1F)
Baak Demirta and her doctor sentenced over falsified' medical report on her miscarriage
The wife of a jailed Kurdish politician has been sentenced to two and a half years in a Turkish prison over a typo in a medical report on a miscarriage, in a case denounced as an appalling" political persecution.
A court in Diyarbakr handed down sentences of 30 months each for Baak Demirta, a teacher, and her doctor on Thursday for submitting a falsified medical report, a local Kurdish news agency reported.
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