“The lives of prisoners who are sadly deprived of hygiene conditions in normal times and who have difficulty in accessing their right to health are in great danger because of the Covid -19 outbreak.”
Month: March 2020
Human rights organizations demand release of prisoners
Human rights organisations in Turkey are calling for immediate protection measures for prisoners in view of the Corona pandemic. Turkish prisons are extremely overcrowded with 300,000 inmates.
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33 bar associations call on government to release prisoners
There are over than 270,000 prisoners in 375 prisons in Turkish prison, according to figures released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat). Concern is growing because overcrowding may help the spread of coronavirus as it is of other diseases.
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Afrin -Shahba People: Open Letter to the World Health Organization
Displaced Afrin people in Shehba with 6 organization signed an open letter about Covid-19 to the World Health Organization . We public the letter signed by The Democratic Self-Management in Shehba, The Camps Management in Shehba, Afrin’s Hospital’s Management, Health Administration in Shehba, Human Rights in Shehba and Kurdish Red Crescent:
“The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), in cooperation with the World Health Organization (WHO), issued a report regarding the emergence of corona virus (COVID-19) in the Syrian Republic on / 11th of March 2020 /, the report stated that the Syrian Ministry of Health confirmed the negative of all cases that were suspected and no one was infected. Letter in PDF
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COVID-19 Recommendations and implementation tools of WHO
Wholesale Turkish violations in Afrin
During two years of Afrin occupation, the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries have not ceased their violations against human beings from looting, to the processes of the demographic change to the bombings and massacres against children of Afrin and Al-Shhaba canton.
Iran release 85,000 including political prisoners
Iran has temporarily freed 85,000 inludes all polical prisoners to help combat the spread of coronavirus. Iran has one of the worst national outbreaks of coronavirus with 14,991 cases and 853 deaths, including 129 fatalities on Monday, the largest one-day rise in deaths.
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Children in Waşokanî Camp dream of going back home
The children forced to flee from the attacks of the invading Turkish state mercenaries who settled in Waşokanî Camp, are dreaming of returning to their homes while working with their families to create new living spaces.
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