Turkey: Parliament Opposition Party Leader on Trial
(WorldNews Turkey)

Expand Selahattin Demirtas, co-leader of the Peoples´ Democratic Party (HDP), was among MPs jailed on November 4, 2016. His vacant seat in the general assembly of the parliament was marked with his photo © 2016 HDP (Istanbul) - The prolonged pretrial detention of the leader of a parliamentary opposition party in Turkey challenges basic democratic principles and is part of a wider pattern of repression against government critics, Human Rights Watch said today. The trial of Selahattin Demirtas, leader of the Peoples´ Democratic Party (HDP) is scheduled to begin in the Sincan prison campus...