The Turkish government has not only refused to execute the order on the basis of a European Court of Human Rights ruling, but has also filed new charges against him.

Human Rights Watch director of Turkish Section, Sinclair Webb, has described the new charges against Demirtas, the former co-leader of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP), as a distortion of the European Court of Human Rights' ruling.

Sinclair Webb told Arab News that the re-filing of baseless allegations against Demirtas was done only to ridicule the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights and did not change his situation much.

He emphasized that the European Court of Human Rights had ordered Demirtas released and that he should be released immediately.

Demirtas has been in prison for the past four years, and a large number of members of parliament and his party, as well as mayors elected by the HDP, of which Demirtas once led, are in prison.

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