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Turkey: Kurdish politician jailed in prison for wrong date on medical certificate

THE Basak Demirtas, the wife of imprisoned opposition politician Selahattin Demirtas, was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison because the medical certificate she was given had the wrong date, according to an article in the Cumhuriyet newspaper.

Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online. Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online.

Selahattin Demirtas, one of the most famous politicians in Turkey, the former co-chair of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), has been in prison for five years on “terrorism” charges, which he denies.

Nacho Sanchez Amor, Member of the European Parliament and Member of the European Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee, commented that this verdict seemed completely “political”.

“2.5 years in prison for a simple mistake by mistake in a medical certificate – it is terrible, beyond all reason. It just seems like such a political decision. “And it gives a measure of how alarming the state of Turkish justice is.”.

Ms. Demirtas remains at large as her appeal is pending. Proponents of her case have been working to make the actual transcript of this statement available online.

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