Socialist Aotearoa from New Zealand condemns ban proceedings against HDP

Socialist Aotearoa (New Zealand) strongly condemns the ban proceedings against the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey as a affront to democracy and we stand with the HDP against this repression.

Socialist Aotearoa  from New Zealand issued a statement about the ban proceedings against the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP)  in Turkey saying that it is "an affront to democracy and we stand with the HDP against this repression."

The statement said: "After removing many democratically elected Kurdish mayors, the Turkish state is now moving to ban a democratic party for which millions of people have voted for. This is unlawful, undemocratic and a violation of civil and political rights.
For four years, the former HDP leader Selahattin Demirtaş has been imprisoned, like so many other opposition MPs, members of parliament, mayors and journalists."
The statement called "on the Turkish authorities to immediately halt the ban proceedings and to release from prison and restore to office all HDP elected representatives, and free all other political prisoners."