Bulgaria’s Betrayal of Europe
Is Bulgaria really committed to European norms? Krassimir Kanev recounts the troubling case of leading Turkmen dissident Annadurdy Hadjiev, whom Bulgarian authorities are threatening with extradition to Turkmenistan on a trumped-up charge of which he was acquitted four years ago.
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When Bulgaria joined the European Union this past January, I believed that my country had finally left its repressive past behind. But the recent arrest and threatened deportation of Annadurdy Hadjiev, a dissident from Turkmenistan who sought refuge here, suggests that some things never change.