(MENAFN) Thousands of people who gathered in Hannover, Germany last Saturday to celebrate Newroz voiced support for the Afrin resistance and condemned the Turkish state invasion. Hundreds of posters of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Ocalan were carried by the crowd despite the police ban, AFN News reported.
During the demonstration, Die Linke's Federal Parliament member Diether Dehm held a poster of Ocalan for the crowd as he sang a German version of the WWII Italian partizan chant Bella Ciao. Dehm, known for his artistic endeavors as well as his politics and human rights efforts, said: "I have lost my parliamentary immunity before for opening a PKK flag, but these punishments can't wear me down, now I am opening an Ocalan poster."
Dehm was held shortly by the police after he stepped down from the stage and later found out that an investigation had been launched. For the investigation to continue, Dehm would have to be stripped of his immunity.
Diether Dehm, for his part, issued a written statement and said he will not back down in any way in the face of this police investigation and he will continue to fight against the PKK ban. Dehm pointed out that the PKK is engaged in a struggle of resistance and said: "This ridiculous ban should be lifted already."
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