ÖHD: The judiciary is no longer a decision maker but a notifier
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- 13:51 23/12/2020
Protesting the arrest of DTk Co-Chair Leyla Güven, ÖHD told that the judiciary is no longer a decision maker but a notifier.
Protesting the arrest of DTk Co-Chair Leyla Güven, ÖHD told that the judiciary is no longer a decision maker but a notifier.
Hunger strikes launched by the prisoners in different prisons demanding the end of the continued isolation on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan is on its 27th day. Dersim former Mayor Edibe Şahin and HDP Gebze former District Co-chair Damla Bağcı, who are held in Kandıra No 1 F-Type Prison, joined the hunger strike.
Women who were subjected to strip search that is denied by AKP Group Deputy Chairperson Özlem Zengin, said it haunted them for months.
The lawsuit filed against the seriously ill prisoner Celal Şeker, who lost his life in Diyarbakır D Type Prison, on the allegation of "propagandazing for an illegal organization" turned out to be still open despite he has been dead for 3 years.
Arrested former Co-Chair of the HDP Selahattin Demirtaş and HDP Co-Chairs Sancar and Buldan have made statements about the judgement of the ECtHR Grand Chamber, which has ruled for the immediate release of Demirtaş.
Detained and arrested in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeastern province of Diyarbakır, Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-Chair and dismissed HDP MP Güven has been transferred from Diyarbakır Prison to Elazığ Prison in eastern Turkey.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Turkey is unlawfully jailing Demirtaş and called on Turkish authorities "to take all necessary measures" to secure Demirtaş's immediate release.
An investigation wass launched against HDP MP Semra Güzel on grounds that Leyla Güven was at her place last night when she was taken into custody.
Detained after being given a 22 years and 3 months prison sentence, DTK Co-chair Leyla Güven was sent to Diyarbakır Women's Closed Prison.
The HDP said in its statement: "The sentence of 22 years and 6 months in prison in the legal case in Diyarbakır against Ms Leyla Güven is the result of the applied enemy law."
The hunger strike prisoners started demanding the removal of the aggravated isolation on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan continues on day 26. Gökhan Çetin and Erkan Taşkan from Tarsus Prison took over the rotating hunger strike.
Attorney Gülizar Tuncer who stated that it was shameless to deny that people aren't being strip searched in Turkey like the AKP said, added that even the elderly and the children are being strip searched.
Seven teenagers including HDP Party Assembly (PM) and Youth Council member Ferhat Kalkan were accused of 'being a member of a terrorist organization' on grounds that they went on a picnic together.
Given a prison sentence of 22 years and 6 months today, DTK Co-chair Leyla Güven was taken into custody. Güven told she will be engaging in politics whether he is inside our outside."
Our reporter Zeynep Durgut, who was detained in the Cizre district of Şırnak, was released on the condition of judicial control.