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The picture has been posted on the social media account of former Co-Chair of the HDP Selahattin Demirtaş, with the note, “We are walking together. We will surely reach that harbor together one day. See you soon…”

Arrested after being removed from office, HDP’s Diyarbakır Metropolitan Co-Mayor Selçuk Mızraklı has been transferred to Edirne Prison at his own request.

Jailed politician Demirtaş says that the restrictions on family and attorney visitations due to the pandemic are still in place in prisons: “Edirne Prison has been rocked by protest slogans for the past 20 days. Do you hear?”

“Face-to-face visits have been suspended. No opportunities have been provided for video chat. And, now, censorship… What is next,” Başak Demirtaş, the wife of jailed former HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş, has asked the Ministry of Justice.

56 prisoners, who have protested PKK Leader Öcalan not being allowed to meet his lawyer and family, have gone on hunger strike.