Diyar Guldogan

2 weeks ago | aa.com.tr | Diyar Guldogan |Rabia Iclal Turan

WASHINGTONA Palestinian student from Columbia University who was arrested during a citizenship interview, was released after an order by a US district judge in the state of Vermont, his legal team said Wednesday. US District Judge Geoffrey Crawford ordered Mohsen Mahdawi’s release on bail, pending the outcome of his habeas petition, the ACLU said in a statement.

3 weeks ago | aa.com.tr | Selcuk Acar |Diyar Guldogan

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON A group of protesters chained themselves on Monday to Columbia University’s campus gates demanding the release of two Palestinian student activists. The protest at 116th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in New York City came a week after Mohsen Mahdawi, a legal permanent resident and former student protest organizer at Columbia, was taken into custody at the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) office in the state of Vermont during a citizenship interview.

2 months ago | aa.com.tr | Rabia Iclal Turan |Diyar Guldogan

WASHINGTON The US Treasury Department on Thursday announced that it sanctioned the Iranian petroleum minister. "Today, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating Iran’s Minister of Petroleum, Mohsen Paknejad, who oversees the export of tens of billions of dollars’ worth of Iranian oil and has allocated billions of dollars’ worth of oil to Iran’s armed forces for export," it said in a statement.

2 months ago | aa.com.tr | Rabia Iclal Turan |Diyar Guldogan

AA / Washington / Diyar Guldogan et Iclal TuranLe département américain du Trésor a annoncé jeudi avoir sanctionné le ministre iranien du Pétrole.