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A Kurdish journalist and activist risks deportation to Bulgaria from where he fears he might be extradited after fleeing Iran in 2008, a Kurdish media outlet has reported.
Kayhan Yosfi's asylum request has been refused by Swedish authorities who seek his deportation to Bulgaria.
Yosfi worked with Kurdish newspapers in Iran and was subject to "pressure and threats from the Islamic Republic of Iran," the website rudaw.net quotes him as saying.
"The regime has repeatedly threatened me. I fear being arrested and even hanged. Also, I fear for my family."
He admits to having used an illegal route via Bulgaria which was not decided by him. Entering into Serbia he was arrested and sent back to Bulgaria where he and other smuggled people were, in his words, "beaten by police and held in custody for 12 days."
Asked why he is afraid of being returned to Bulgaria, he says the prospect makes him "very worried", with police having taken some of his money apart from beating him. Additionally, he fears deportation to Iran from there.
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Brazen Bulgarian gangs "terrorise the elderly and rob them over their life savings with increasingly aggressive phone scams nettling millions of euros," according to an AFP story.
The prospect of US President Donald Trump's moving closer to Russia has scrambled the strategy of "balancing East and West" used for decades by countries like Bulgaria, the New York Times says.
Bulgarians have benefited a lot from their EU membership, with incomes rising and Brussels overseeing politicians, according to a New York Times piece.
German businesses prefer to trade with Bulgaria rather than invest into the country, an article on DW Bulgaria's website argues.
The truth about Bulgaria and Moldova's presidential elections is "more complicated" and should not be reduced to pro-Russian candidates winning, the Economist says.
President-elect Rumen Radev "struck a chord with voters by attacking the status quo and stressing issues like national security and migration," AFP agency writes after the presidential vote on Sunday.
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