Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Alyn Smith (Scottish National Party), on Tuesday, 27 April 2021, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 9 members in total.

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Trial of HDP Leaders in Turkey

That this House regrets the erosion of democracy which has taken place under President Erdogan in recent years amid the arrests of elected politicians and party activists; notes its concern at recent reports that lawyers defending HDP politicians against charges which include attacking the integrity of the state have been denied access to the courtroom on arbitrary and unlawful grounds; further notes that the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the pre-trial detention of Selahattin Demirtaş and other Turkish citizens is unlawful and calls for their immediate release; recognises that the arrest of HDP parliamentarians is also an attack on the democratic rights of more than six million citizens of Turkey who voted for those parliamentarians; commends the work being done by the HDP in attempting democratic steps towards a peaceful resolution to the Kurdish question; and calls for the immediate release of those arrested and for the restoration of full democratic and civil rights for all people in Turkey.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

1779 

Session

2019-21

Other sponsors

Hywel Williams

Jonathan Edwards

Jim Shannon

Lord Spellar

Liz Saville Roberts

Subjects

Arrests Politics and government Turkey Turkish Peoples' Democratic Party

Link

View this Early day motion on edm.parliament.uk