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Meanwhile, Poland strips Zelensky of its highest honour over naming of military unit after WWII far-right paramilitaries
TWO Kurdish politicians appeared in court in south-east Turkey yesterday via videolink from a prison 550 miles away.
The images and voices of Diyarbakir Mayor Gultan Kisanak and Sebahat Tuncel, co-leader of the DBP party affiliated to the pro-Kurdish Peace and Democracy Party (HDP), were beamed to the court in Malatya from Kandira maximum security prison.
Ms Kisanak faces 41 indictments mainly concerning speeches made between 2011 and 2014.
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
Former judge ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the details and controversy of Lucy Letby’s trial and appeal in the context of famous historical wrongful convictions that prove both the justice system and legal activists make errors
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the government’s proposals to further limit the right of citizens to trial by jury