Legal immunity

European Union lawmakers lifted the EU parliamentary immunity of French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen on March 2 for tweeting pictures of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) violence.

The European Parliament has revoked French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen’s immunity for tweeting pictures of violence by Isis.
Ms Le Pen  – a member of the EU Parliament – is under investigation in France for posting three images of executions by Isis in 2015, including graphic images of the death of American journalist James Foley.

A United Nations judge currently under arrest in Turkey over alleged links to the Gülenist network does not have diplomatic immunity to bar him from his imprisonment, Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ said in a televised interview on Feb. 1. 

Bulgarian lawmaker Iliya Iliev has agreed to be stripped of his immunity as MP to face criminal prosecution.

Earlier, the prosecuting authority demanded his immunity over vote-buying allegations relating to the 2014 early general election.

Iliev purportedly organized a campaign to draw up lists with personal data of the residents of a Roma neighborhood in the town of Yambol.

For years now we have heard announcements and statements heralding measures to offer some sort of immunity to Greek individuals and businesses to return undeclared incomes back to the country or to declare them and make them legal.

In a move likely to alter an ongoing fierce debate over stripping the legislative immunity of members of Turkey's Kurdish problem-focused party, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has proposed parliament lift the immunity from prosecution for all lawmakers and collectively review the 506 outstanding dossiers. 

Iliya Iliev, a lawmaker with liberal DPS party and a former municipal councilor from now the main ruling GERB party, has agreed to have his immunity lifted in order to face criminal prosecution.

Iliev is also considering whether to quit Parliament.

A member of parliament's visit of condolence to the family of the suicide bomber who killed 29 people in Ankara on Feb. 17 has fueled debates on the prospects of lifting the parliamentary immunity of Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) deputies, with the main opposition party raising the stakes and calling for the removal of all parliamentary immunities. 

Ivan Mihovski, an MP from the main governing GERB party, has given up his immunity as demanded by Bulgaria's Chief Prosecutor, his party has reported.

On Tuesday Chief Prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov submitted a request to Parliament demanding that the immunity of Mihovski be lifted in relation to an ongoing probe.

The political row which erupted after the Turkish president called for the co-leaders of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) to have their immunities lifted to facilitate an investigation has prompted one of the party's co-chairs to say "bring it on."