An international delegation organized by the EU Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC) will pay a visit tomorrow to HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş who is imprisoned in Edirne.

The delegation includes: two current Members of the European Parliament, Costas Mavrides and Julie Ward; one former MEP, Francis Wurtz; two current representatives from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Miren Edurne Gorrotxategi and Ulla Sandbaek; a former Member of Iceland’s Parliament and trade unionist, Ögmundur Jonasson; the veteran Foreign Correspondent for The Guardian, Jonathan Steele; the Chair of the Westminster Justice and Peace Commission, Father Joe Ryan; two members of the Advisory Board of the Transnational Institute for Social Ecology, Dimitri Roussopoulos and Federico Venturini; and a Lecturer from the University of Cambridge, Thomas Jeffrey Miley.

Accompanied by HDP Party Assembly member Ayşe Berktay and Istanbul MP Hüda Kaya, the delegation will make a press statement in front of Edirne Prison at 11:00.