The release of a former member of the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) was ordered on Tuesday by the Turkish Justice, as the country’s Constitutional Court ruled that his rights had been violated by the authorities, according to media and his family.
THE Omer Farouk Gergerlioglu, elected by the HDP and known for his human rights struggles, was arrested and jailed in April after resigning from parliament on March 17 after being sentenced to two and a half years in prison for “terrorist propaganda».
Protesting his dismissal, 55-year-old Ggergerlioglou had refuse initially leave Parliament overnight and eat in a room of the building for several days, until he is arrested.
On Thursday, the Constitutional Court ruled that his right to conduct political activities and his individual freedoms “were violated“, Turkish media reported and his son. Following this decision, a court today ordered the release of the former MP, according to the Turkish television network HaberTurk and as broadcast by APE BPE.
“The decision has been forwarded to the prosecutor’s office. They will release my father. I will go and get him “, his son wrote on twitter, Salih Gergerlioglu.
The HDP, the third largest party in the Turkish parliament, is regularly accused by the president Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a “political showcase” of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), described as a “terrorist” organization by Ankara.
Since 2016, several have been arrested hundreds elected HDP officials and activists, but repression appears to have escalated in recent months.
At the end of last month, in fact, the Constitutional Court accepted to consider the appeal of a prosecutor who asked to be out of the law the pro-Kurdish party for its alleged ties to Kurdish rebels.
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