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  • Turkey: Assyrian Monk Gets Two Years in a Turkish Prison for Giving a Piece of Bread

    04/13/2021 6:27:23 PM PDT · by marshmallow · 22 replies
    AsiaNews ^ | 4/7/21
    Father Aho will serve 25 months in prison for providing “help to a terrorist organisation”. The clergyman, absent from the courtroom, has always rejected the charges. The trial was held without journalists and public. Anti-Christian repression is growing as evinced by the Assyrian monk’s trial and the fate of Hagia Sophia.Istanbul (AsiaNews) – A Turkish court sentenced Assyrian monk Sefer (Aho) Bileçen to two years and a month in prison after he was convicted of providing “help to a terrorist organisation”. The clergyman found himself up on terrorism charges after he gave a piece of bread to two people who...