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Nine HDP executives including the party’s İstanbul Provincial Co-Chairs have been arrested after detention of 25 days. Two provincial executives have been sentenced to home confinement.

The defendant lawyers in the second Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) trial in Istanbul requested a stay of proceedings and the release of the defendants. The court rejected all their demands in the suit where some 46 lawyers are currently facing terrorism related charges.