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Imprisoned Kurdish politician Semra Güzel: ‘My right to love is being judged in this trial’

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Imprisoned Kurdish politician Semra Güzel: ‘My right to love is being judged in this trial’

The former HDP deputy was arrested in September 2022, after a targeted campaign by the pro-government media led to a 'terror' investigation.

8 July 2024 Tuğçe Yılmaz

His sentence overturned, imprisoned Mayor faces new trial with new witness testimonies

His sentence overturned, imprisoned Mayor faces new trial with new witness testimonies

In the second hearing of the retrial of Selçuk Mızraklı, the co-mayor of Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality, dismissed and imprisoned immediately after he was elected in 2019, the local court initiated a new case based on the statements of an open witness and ruled for Mızraklı to remain in custody.

12 September 2023

New accusation to imprisoned Kurdish women politicians: 'Producing alcohol in prison'

New accusation to imprisoned Kurdish women politicians: 'Producing alcohol in prison'

A lawsuit has been filed against Ayla Akat Ata, Ayşe Yağcı, Dilek Yağlı, Meryem Adıbelli, and Pervin Oduncu, accusing them of "producing ethyl alcohol" requesting imprisonment of one to three years.

5 September 2023 Nedim Türfent

Imprisoned Co-Mayor of Diyarbakır loses her sister, again behind bars

Imprisoned Co-Mayor of Diyarbakır loses her sister, again behind bars

Gülten Kışanak who is imprisoned, and standing trial in the Kobani case, also lost her father and her brother while in prison. Her lawyers applied for permission so that Kışanak could attend her sister's funeral.