[Hurriyet Daily News] Selahattin Demirtas, the placed in durance vile... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
co-chair of the Kurdish issue-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), will start a hunger strike on March 31 to protest "inhumane treatment," along with placed in durance vile
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
HDP deputy Abdullah Zeydan.
Last week, HDP Siirt deputy Besime Konca started a hunger strike in the Kandira Prison.
Demirtas and Zeydan, who are both placed in durance vile
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
in the northwestern province of Edirne, said they would go on hunger strike due to the actions of the Edirne prison warden.
"We are going on a hunger strike starting from Friday due to the warden’s refusal to engage in dialogue, his practices outside the boundaries of law, his inhumane treatment of other inmates, and the fact that he didn’t take any well-intentioned step towards ending other inmates’ hunger strikes, which have been going on for days," Demirtas said on March 30, in a message addressed to the HDP and the public.
"We invite the public to be sensitive regarding the ongoing hunger strikes and rights violations in prisons," he added.
A hunger strike had also been launched on Feb. 15 in the prisons in Edirne, Sakran in the western province of Izmir, the northwestern province of Tekirdag, and Sincan in Ankara in protest at "rights violations in prisons."
A total of 13 politicians from the HDP, including its co-chairs Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, are currently in jail facing hundreds of years in jail over alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).