Court decision has been announced for Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Amed MP Ziya Pir who was facing a probe for “insulting the prosecutor” that instructed the detention of 32 people, including journalists, during raids on DİHA (Dicle News Agency), Kurdish daily Azadiya Welat, Kurdish institutio KURDÎ-DER and Aram Publishing in Amed on 28 September 2015.

Diyarbakır 7th Penal Court of First Instance sentenced HDP’s Pir to 11 months and 20 days in prison for “insulting a public official” because he called the prosecutor “candidate as a palace jester”.

The court ruled to postpone the sentence for 5 years and dismiss the case on condition that he does not deliberately commit a similar crime during this period of time.