"Top German court halts extradition to Turkey of PKK man
Jan 22, 2010, 13:56 GMT
Karlsruhe, Germany - Germany's top court has stopped the extradition of an alleged Kurdish rebel to Turkey, ruling that life imprisonment without parole was a cruel and inhumane punishment, according to a verdict published Friday.
The 38-year-old man, who is in German pre-extradition custody, is accused of being a regional chief in Turkey of the underground Kurdish Workers Party PKK and ordering a bomb attack in 1999 that killed two and wounded 14 people."
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