Letter from Selahattin Demirtaş to the Commission in charge of reading prison correspondence, 1.05.2017

Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ were elected co-presidents of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) in 2014. They were both arrested at their homes in November 2016 on allegations that were linked to the PKK. Although the European Court of Human Rights has strongly condemned this arrest, declaring it to be of an “incontestable consequence against Read.