A written statement made by the HDP Law and Human Rights Commission criticized the amendments regarding the Execution Law added to the bag bill at the last moment and accepted by the Parliamentary Plan Budget Committee. According to the HDP, "with Provisional Article 10 in the proposal, the conditions for the convicts being moved to an open prison and released on probation will be changed before the conditional release date, and the convicts will be allocated to open prison and probation 3 years earlier. However, this proposal is unlawful in both form and substance. The amendment is in the nature of a special amnesty, as it was made to reduce the capacity density in prisons and resulted in the release of many convicts."

Discrimination against political prisoners

Emphasizing that both this article and the bag law it contains must be voted on in accordance with the Parliament's Bylaws Article 92 and adopted by a three-fifths majority, the statement said: "The government has not followed this method in any bag law, including execution regulations, to date. For this reason, it is unconstitutional that this regulation, which is, in fact, a special amnesty, was brought to the parliament with this method, and accepted that way."

As to the substance, the statement pointed out that political prisoners were also excluded from the scope of the previous execution regulations, and added: "While judicial convicts can be released early with these regulations, political prisoners will not be able to benefit from it. Therefore, the content of the proposal is against the Constitution, according to the prohibition of discrimination and the principle of equality."

The HDP said: "The probation period was three years in judicial crimes, but one year in political cases. Today, the rights of political prisoners have been usurped by the decisions of the administrative and observation boards. We call on the Assembly to take a stance against this discriminatory and criminal political understanding."