Guven convicted on three separate terrorism fees after dropping parliamentary immunity in June this 12 months.
A Turkish court docket has sentenced a Kurdish former lawmaker, who shot to fame for a months-long starvation strike two years in the past, to greater than 22 years in jail on terror-related fees.
Leyla Guven, an opposition Peoples’ Democratic Get together (HDP) deputy who was stripped of her parliamentary immunity in June, was convicted of membership of a “terror group” and disseminating “terror propaganda” for outlawed Kurdish armed teams.
On Monday, Guven was given 14 years and three months in jail on a cost of membership of a “terrorist organisation” and a further eight years for 2 separate fees of disseminating “terrorist propaganda”.
Guven was not current on the court docket listening to within the predominantly Kurdish southeastern metropolis of Diyarbakir, and her whereabouts weren’t instantly clear.
The court docket ordered Guven’s fast arrest.
Her authorized group informed AFP information company it could enchantment the decision.
In 2018, the 56-year-old gained worldwide consideration by launching a 200-day starvation strike in a bid to finish jailed Kurdish chief Abdullah Ocalan’s isolation by securing him entry to his household and legal professionals.
Guven was in custody on separate fees when she launched her starvation strike.
She was freed below judicial management final 12 months after serving a one-year time period for labelling the Turkish navy operation in opposition to a Syrian Kurdish armed group an “invasion”.
In a tweet, Guven’s daughter Sabiha Temizkan referred to as the Turkish authorities “the enemy of the legislation”.
Ocalan’s Kurdistan Employees’ Get together (PKK), which is blacklisted by Ankara and its Western allies as a terror group, has been waging an armed rebellion in opposition to the Turkish state since 1984 that has killed tens of hundreds.
The federal government has jailed dozens of mayors and different HDP officers up to now 12 months over the celebration’s suspected hyperlinks to the PKK, which it strongly denies.
The crackdown has alarmed international human rights teams and additional strained Turkey’s uneasy relations with the European Union, which is more and more involved by the insurance policies of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The opposition has accused Erdogan and his AK Get together of searching for to quash dissent by jailing opposition members and critics since a 2016 failed coup.
The federal government has mentioned its actions are justified by threats going through the nation.