NEWS CENTER - The ECtHR has convicted Turkey in its application on the grounds that prisoners Figen Yüksekdağ and Selahattin Demirtaş did not receive effective assistance to challenge their arrest under domestic law.

 

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has decided on the application of former Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chairs Figen Yüksekdağ and Selahattin Demirtaş, who are imprisoned, on the grounds that they could not receive effective assistance to challenge their arrest under domestic law. According to Euronews; The ECHR ruled that Turkey violated the European Convention on Human Rights.

 

The ECtHR has ruled that Demirtaş and Yüksekdağ have suffered "violation of rights" regarding the appeal process against their arrest under domestic law. In the statement made by the ECtHR, it was stated that Yüksekdağ and Demirtaş had applied to appeal their arrest under domestic law on the grounds that they had not received effective assistance.

 

It was reported that Demirtaş and Yüksekdağ "complained in particular that the prison authorities were monitoring their meetings with their lawyers and confiscating documents they shared with their lawyers".

 

The statement stated that these measures had been implemented under a decree issued following the attempted military coup of July 15, 2016.