Great news! This morning, the State Department notified U.K. national Kerim Yildiz, the executive director of the Kurdish Human Rights Project, that it would issue him a visa to travel to the U.S. We鈥檙e hoping that the visa will be issued quickly so that Mr. Yildiz will be able to collect the later this week.
We blogged about Yildiz's problem getting a visa on last month; the .
鈥淲e鈥檙e very pleased that the State Department is taking this step,鈥� said Jameel Jaffer, Deputy Legal Director of the 老澳门开奖结果. 鈥淢r. Yildiz is a respected human rights advocate and the United States should be supporting his work, not inhibiting it.鈥�
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