Turkey refuses to deport Iranian journalist
Iranian journalist Mohammad Mosaed, 20 January 2021 [2mohammadmosaed/Twitter] January 20, 2021 at 3:06 pm
Turkey will not deport Iranian journalist Mohammad Mosaed back to Iran, security sources have revealed. Instead, he is being allowed to remain while his application for asylum is processed,
According to a statement released on Monday by the Washington-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Mosaed was arrested by the Turkish authorities at the weekend for entering the country illegally.
The Iranian authorities sentenced him in August to four years in prison on charges of colluding against national security and spreading propaganda against the system. His sentence, he was told at the time, would start after two days.
Iranian journalist Mohamed Mosaed requests asylum in Turkey
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An inmate peers from behind a wall as a guard walks by in the female section of the infamous Evin prison, north of Tehran, Iran, 13 June 2006, ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images Facing imprisonment in Iran for his journalism, the Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Turkish authorities to conduct an expedited review of Iranian journalist Mohamed Mosaed’s request for asylum.
This statement was originally published on cpj.org on 19 January 2021.
Iranian journalist Mohamed Mosaed has requested asylum in Turkey, his lawyer Canan Pehlivan told the Committee to Protect Journalists today. CPJ is calling on Turkish authorities to conduct an expedited review of his request, as Mosaed faces imprisonment in Iran in reprisal for his journalism.
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