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In 1994, Dr. Yekta Uzunoglu, a Kurdish businessman living in the Czech
Republic was accused of torture, kidnapping, three counts of attempted
murder, and robbery. His accuser was a Turkish national living in the
Czech Republic under a dual identity—this man is suspected of having been
a double agent, working for the KGB and the Turkish secret service, and
perhaps even for the Czechoslovak StB. Dr. Uzunoglu was arrested by Czech
police and held in jail for 2.5 years while the case against him was under
investigation. Then, in 1997 he was released—with no explanation for the
entire incident, and no apology. It has been 12 years since this case
began, and Dr. Uzunoglu remains in the Czech Republic, now back in court
and determined to have his name officially cleared.
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Current AffairsPetiton drive launched to ban Communist name and symbols
A group of senators and like-minded journalists, artists and other public
figures is petitioning for a change in the penal code that would outlaw
the promotion of Communism and Nazism as criminal ideologies. The group
also wants to make it illegal for political groupings to include the word
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