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In a previous hearing, Demirtaş had told the prosecutors that "You will account for all these before the judiciary."

Staged by Germany’s Theater Bonn on the occasion of Ludwig van Beethoven’s 250th birthday, his only opera “Fidelio” has been devoted to the political prisoners in Turkey.

The rights organizations in Diyarbakır have stated that Leyla Güven, an HDP MP who has been on a hunger strike for 78 days, has serious health issues and called the authorities to grant her demands to end the hunger strike.

Idris Baluken, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Vice Chairman, announced that 8 BDP deputies will start hunger strike on Saturday and other deputies will join various protests after BDP's political and diplomatic efforts to resolve the issue did not yield any results.

Five months after her release from prison, former political prisoner Güler Zere died of cancer. Zere had been granted pardon by President Gül in November 2009 after having waited for her release for months under conditions of insufficient medical treatment.