Turkey jails UN judge in 'breach of diplomatic immunity'

[muriel_volestrangler]

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The United Nations says Turkey's decision to convict one its judges is a breach of both diplomatic immunity and a binding legal order.

Judge Aydin Sefa Akay, from the UN's Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, was convicted of being a member of a designated terrorist group.

He faces more than seven years in prison if an appeal fails.
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Enis Berberoglu from the Republican People's Party (CHP), the main opposition party, was sentenced to 25 years in prison for leaking "secret information" to a newspaper.

He is accused of handing over evidence showing Turkish intelligence services transporting arms over the border to Syria, a story which angered President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40285658

More from the British Law Society Gazette: https://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/war-crimes-judge-joined-a-terrorist-organisation-turkish-court-rules/5061541.article

[Nitram]

1. Uh, oh, we have a rogue nation here. The attack on peaceful American protestors and now this.

Very Trumpian.