Mızraklı was detained on the 21 October 2019 and charged with being a member of terror organization.[7] He had a second trial hearing in February 2020 and is one of 23 elected mayors currently in detention in Turkey who are charged with connections to the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party.[8] The prosecution alleged that Mizrakli had attended funerals of PKK members.[9] Human Rights Watch stated that "the evidence in an indictment against him does not support the charge that he was involved with terrorism or committed crimes."[10] On the 9 March 2020 he was sentenced to 9 years and 4 months imprisonment for membership in a terror organization.[11]