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Former People’s Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Figen Yuksekdag
CYPRIOT communists joined calls today for the immediate release of jailed Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) leaders Selahattin Demirtas, Figen Yuksekdag and others held as political prisoners in Turkey.
The Progressive Party of Working People (Akel) condemned the Turkish state’s “unlawful and political discrimination” of HDP representatives.
In a letter to Turkey’s opposition party, Akel insisted Turkey must abide by European Court of Human Rights ruling which declared that the lifting of parliamentary immunity of 40 HDP MPs in 2016 was unlawful.
CLAUDIA WEBBE looks at how Britain’s Nato ally has upped the stakes in its effort to silence domestic dissenting voices
VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)
Alvaro Uribe is found guilty of witness tampering and procedural fraud, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
