The Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) severely condemned Ankara in the case of pro-Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas, imprisoned since November 2016 in Turkish jails and from whom it called for "
immediate release
" .
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The Court finds several violations of the (European) Convention on Human Rights and orders the immediate release
" of Mr. Demirtas, a former presidential candidate and one of the main rivals of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a the pan-European jurisdiction indicated in a statement, which sat in its highest instance.