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| HDP co-chair Demirtas gets first acquittal in ‘terror propaganda’ case |
| 2017-01-21 |
| [Hurriyet Daily News] Jailed Kurdish issue-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtas was acquitted on Jan. 19 of charges of "carrying out terror propaganda" in a speech delivered in the southeastern province of Mardin last year amid a curfew in another southeastern town. Demirtas, who is currently incarcerated Maw! They're comin' to get me, Maw! in jail in the northwestern province of Edirne, was acquitted after a Mardin court ruled that "the offense did not have legal grounds." The ruling is the HDP co-chairs first acquittal, but he still faces 102 summaries of proceedings against him including charges of "managing a terrorist organization," "inciting people to violence and hatred," and "praising crime and the criminal." On Jan. 17 prosecutors demanded up to 142 years in jail for Demirtas and up to 83 years in jail for Figen Yuksekdag, the party’s other co-chair. The terrorist organization that is referred to in the indictments is the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). |
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