The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has issued a new violation of the rights of former HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş, who has been under arrest for 9 years. The ECHR found the second detention order issued in 2019 “arbitrary and political” and ruled that Demirtaş’s rights to liberty, security and fair trial were violated.
The court also sentenced Turkey to pay 35,000 euros in compensation. The blocking of access to the file by Demirtaş and his lawyers and the Constitutional Court’s failure to issue a ruling for more than four years were also among the grounds for violation.
Demirtaş’s lawyers emphasized that the ECHR ruling invalidated the evidence used in the Kobani case and that the release and acquittal is a legal obligation.
July 8, 2025
BirGün