Overview

• Lower Saxony has set Mehmet Çakas’s expulsion for August 28 even though the Administrative Court of Lüneburg issued a provisional injunction to halt the move
• The Administrative Court has scheduled a main hearing on September 8 to review Çakas’s challenge to the deportation order
• The immigration authority is not required to wait for the Federal Constitutional Court’s decision in the pending emergency appeal
• Çakas was convicted in April 2024 for coordinating PKK activities and has completed his sentence at Uelzen prison
• Supporters and refugee groups warn he faces ‘enhanced life sentences’ in Turkey amounting to torture and have mobilised protests and petitions