Turkey calls for life imprisonment of US pastor Andrew Brunson
A photo of the Rev. Andrew Brunson during his time in prison. Photo courtesy of World Witness Turkish prosecutors demanded life imprisonment for jailed US pastor Andrew Brunson in an...
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Jailed US pastor’s daughter addresses UN Human Rights Council
The daughter of jailed US pastor Andrew Brunson appealed to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva last week to help secure her father’s release from prison in Turkey,...
Bomb scare intimidates another church in Turkey
...pastor Shinhyung Kang of the Izmir Karsiyaka Protestant Church was fined as an “illegal religious worker” and deported on 25 March. Andrew Brunson has been detained for the past 16...
Jailed US pastor still refused ‘due process’ in Turkey
As indicated in his only photograph from his imprisonment, Andrew Brunson has lost more than 50 pounds (20kg), becoming a pale, slender version of himself. (Photo: World Witness) As a...
Andrew Brunson, still in prison after one year, thanks people for praying for him
Andrew Brunson in a photo provided by his family. American pastor Andrew Brunson has served one year as a prisoner in Turkey. Charges against him are unclear and recently Turkish...
Turkish president admits US pastor is political hostage
Andrew Brunson in a photo provided by his family. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has for the first time confirmed publicly that a US pastor jailed in Turkey for the...
Turkey charges US pastor as ‘spy’; conviction would mean life in prison
Andrew Brunson (photo provided by his family) Almost a year after arresting him, Turkey piled on new charges of “spying” and “insurgency” against American pastor Andrew Brunson on 24 August,...
IS guilty of genocide, says US Secretary of State
...a NATO ally, saying that “authorities continued to limit the human rights of members of some religious minority groups”. US pastor Andrew Brunson has been imprisoned in Turkey since October...
Political stalemate holds US pastor ‘hostage’ in Turkish jail
Comments this week from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan increased speculation that Turkey has been holding jailed US pastor Andrew Brunson hostage since last October in order to extract political...
Turkey unprepared for Trump’s counter-demand
...Trump made a counter-demand on 16 May, asking Erdoğan to release US pastor Andrew Brunson, jailed since last October on alleged terrorism charges in Izmir, Turkey’s third city. After living...