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AFP: Anti-nuclear activists go on trial in Turkey

"Anti-nuclear activists go on trial in Turkey

(AFP) – 2 days ago

ANKARA — Fifty-eight environmental activists, many of them Greenpeace members, went on trial Thursday for demonstrating in July against Turkey's plans to build a nuclear power plant.

The prosecution seeks jail terms of between six months and three years for the defendants under an article that punishes those who participate in unauthorised demonstrations and resist the police, a Greenpeace statement said."

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