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• Court rejects application for release of Demirtaş 

  A court in Ankara has rejected the application for release from prison of former HDP leader Selahattin Demirtaş, citing the lack of a translation of the written ECtHR ruling into Turkish.
• HDP report says 20 million people live under poverty line 

  The HDP Economy Commission's report revealed that 60 percent of the workforce earn the minimum wage or less in Turkey. "At least 20 million people live under the poverty line,"
• KCDK-E: Turkish state resumes attacks on Christmas Day 

  The KCDK-E Co-Presidency Council celebrated Christmas and said that the Turkish state continued its attacks on Christmas Day.
• Three people jailed in Adana 

  Three people taken into custody in an Adana-based operation were jailed today.
• Pepe Mujica expresses solidarity with Catalan prisoners 

  Uruguay's ex-President of Uruguay Jose Mujica expressed his solidarity with the Catalan pro-independence activists who are imprisoned in Barcelona.
• HDP Ağrı co-chair Akar detained 

  HDP Ağrı Provincial co-chair Cemal Akar was detained in a house raid on Thursday.
• Peace in Kurdistan writes to UK Foreign Minister about Güven 

  Peace in Kurdistan Campaign sent an open letter to Rt. Hon. Dominic Raab MP, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, on the jailing of DTK co-chair and former HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven.
• PCF calls for release of political prisoners in Turkey 

  The Communist Party of France (PCF) said that the prison sentence handed out to DTK co-chair Leyla Güven is unacceptable.
• EH Bildu: Arrest of Leyla Güven is a new attack on Kurds 

  Basque left coalition EH Bildu saw the detention of Leyla Güven has an attack on Kurds and demanded Turkey "to cease all these attacks and comply with the European convention of Human Rights and free Demirtas."
• Güven's lawyer says the government is committing a crime 

  Leyla Güven’s lawyer, Serdar Çelebi, said that in fact who committed a crime is the AKP-MHP government. "Personal and discretional rules are actually applied. We are concerned about Leyla Güven's health problems."
• PACE rapporteurs urge Turkey to release Demirtaş 

  Selahattin Demirtaş must be released now, said PACE rapporteurs and urged the Turkish authorities to implement the final judgment of the European Court of Human Rights.
• HDP calls for the release of Demirtaş and all jailed politicians 

  Demirtaş and all politicians who have been taken hostages must immediately be released, says the HDP.
• HRW calls for the immediate release of Demirtaş 

  “The Turkish government must act without delay and cannot disregard this judgment with specious arguments that it doesn’t apply to Demirtaş’ current detention,” said the Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
• FEDA: Arrest of Leyla Güven is an intimidation effort 

  The arrest of DTK co-chair and Hakkari Deputy Leyla Güven means an intimidation, said FEDA.
• Leyla Güven transferred to Elazığ 

  Kurdish politician Leyla Güven has been transferred to a prison in Elazığ. For several hours her whereabouts were unknown, lawyers received no information about the transfer.
• AKP/MHP lobbyist caught with 100 kilograms of heroin at EU border 

  Veysel Filiz, AKP/MHP lobbyist and press officer of the Turkish Embassy in Brussels, expelled for espionage, has been arrested upon entering the EU with a hundred kilograms of heroin in his luggage.
• Hunger strike in prisons on day 27 

  The hunger strike launched by prisoners to end the isolation of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan and violations in prisons entered its 27th day.
• Sinn Féin MLA Anderson calls for the release of Leyla Güven 

  Leyla Güven should be released immediately along with Abdullah Öcalan to assist the peace process in the region, said Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson.
• KCDK-E: Expose the fascist Turkish regime wherever you are 

  KCDK-E stated that the women's freedom line and the freedom struggle are taken prisoner in the person of Leyla Güven.
• Demo for Leyla Güven in Frankfurt 

  Women from different organizations joined the action at Hauptwache Square Tuesday afternoon, including Women Defend Rojava.
• Yazidi Coordination: Only resistance can make fascism retreat 

  The European Yazidi Coordination cricised Leyla Güven's arrest and gave a message of resistance.
• Protest against the arrest of Leyla Güven in Brussels 

  The arrest of DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven was protested in Belgium on Tuesday.
• Police attack DBP protest in solidarity with Leyla Güven 

  Police attacked a group of people who protested the arrest of DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven. Many people were detained during police intervention in which HDP MPs were also battered.
• Motion in UK parliament over transparency and democracy in KRG 

  Motion in the UK parliament calls on the Foreign Secretary to "express concerns and support calls for transparency and accountability in the region with his Kurdish Regional Government counterpart as a matter of urgency."
• HDP rejects hostile sentence imposed on Leyla Güven 

  The HDP said in its statement: "The sentence of 22 years and 6 months in prison in the legal case in Diyarbakır against Ms Leyla Güven is the result of the applied enemy law."