İbrahim Parlak

İbrahim Parlak is a Kurdish-American who has been accused by the U.S. Government of being a former member of the PKK, a rebel group that sought to win independence for Parlak's native Northern Kurdistan from Turkish rule. He was taken into custody by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on July 29 2004, based on his alleged past ties to the PKK. Parlak won his writ of habeas corpus and was released from prison on June 3 2005, much to the delight of his hundreds of supporters in his hometown of Harbert, Michigan and elsewhere. The court had originally decided to deport him based on the government's case; he is currently free pending an appeal of that decision.

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* [http://www.kurdmedia.com/reports.asp?id=2163/ Information 2]
* [http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/20/magazine/20PRISON.html/ Information 3]
* [http://www.cafegulistan.com/ Free Ibrahim, Ibo Parlak's supporters website]