Skip to content
Kurdish Centre for Human Rights

Kurdish Centre for Human Rights

Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme

  • Home
  • About us
    • Status
    • Activities
  • Reports
    • Iran
    • Iraq
    • Syria
    • Turkey
  • OHCHR
    • KCHR
  • News
    • Press Releases
    • Women
    • Children
    • Prisons
    • War Crimes
  • Contact
  • IT
    • .
      • Actualités
      • Femmes
  • Toggle search form

2,410 violations of rights recorded in Van 2020

Posted on January 15, 2021January 30, 2021 By admin

IHD Van Branch announced that there were 2,410 violations of rights registered in the city in 2020. IHD branch head Murat Melet stated that the Imrali isolation should be lifted immediately.

Human Rights Association (IHD) Van Branch announced its 2020 Report on Violations of Rights at the association building. Explaining the report, IHD Branch Chair Murat Melet drew attention to the hunger strike action launched by prisoners against the isolation imposed on Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan.

Stating that thousands of prisoners participate in the action and their demands should be met, Melet said: “One of the reasons why people go on hunger strike is the isolation on Mr. Öcalan. This is not just a problem of the prisoners; it is a problem of all society in Turkey. We make the same call. In order to resolve all the problems in Turkey and Kurdish issue in particular, by peaceful means, Mr Öcalan’s isolation must first be removed as soon as possible.”

REACTION TO THE PROHIBITION

Melet also called on Justice Minister Abdulhamit Gül to end the violations in prisons. Asking the Van Governorship to lift the ban on actions and activities in the city that has continued for 1,515 days, Melet shared the details in the report.

Stating that there have been 2,410 violations of rights in the Van city in the last year, Melet said, “Unlawful trials and permanent prohibitions have been the most significant state of emergency practices of 2020.”

RIGHTS VIOLATIONS

The rights violations in the report were listed as follows:
* Those killed and injured by security forces: 2 people lost their lives; 5 people were injured.
* Suspected police and soldier deaths: 1
* Conflicts: 4 security guards lost their lives, 2 people were injured
* Armed militant: 22 people died
* Civilians: 2 people lost their lives, 8 people were injured
* Administratot / member of political party, union and association attacked: 1 (HDP)
* Journalist: 1 (Ruşen Takva targeted)
* Asylum seekers and migrants who lost their lives: 83 people lost their lives, 81 were injured
* Deaths and injuries in border areas: 12 people died, 9 people were injured
* Referral practices, violation of the right to health, denial of family visit, access to lawyer and rights such communication, isolation and other violations in prisons: 87

Suspicious deaths
* Women: 13
* Men: 1
* Men who committed suicide: 9
* Women who committed suicide: 2
* Attempted suicide: 2
* Women subjected to domestic violence: 7
* Women subjected to violence in social sphere: 9

CHILDREN SUBJECTED TO VIOLENCE BY STATE FORCES
* Injured / Violence: 5
* Harassment: 1
* Children exposed to social violence: 7

TORTURE
* Children subjected to domestic violence: 1
* Torture and ill-treatment in custody: 9
* Torture and ill-treatment outside of detention places: 5
* Kidnapping and spying threat: 3
* Torture and ill treatment of private security officers: 3
* Threatened: 5

POLITICAL GENOCIDE
* Detained: 325 (2 of them children)
* Arrested: 60
* Home raids: 206
* Detained asylum seekers and immigrants: 1267

VIOLATIONS
* Violations of freedom of thought and expression: 57
* Violations of freedom of association: 2
* Violations of freedom of assembly and demonstration: 5
* Occupational accidents: 28 people died, 8 were injured
* Dismissed: 8
* Penalties given: 20
* Discrimination / exclusion in recruitment and employment: 2
* Violation of the right to health: 2
* Violation of the right to benefit from public services: 2.

Reports, Turkey

Post navigation

Previous Post: Coordination for Monitoring Hunger Strikes: Isolation must end immediately
Next Post: IFJ and EFJ call for release of journalists

More Related Articles

33 bar associations call on government to release prisoners News
Türkdoğan labels security forces violence as “systemic” Reports
181 unidentified bodies in Malatya News
HRW: 32 arrested at peaceful protest in KRG Iraq
Kurdish youth is murdered by a Turkish soldier in Hakkari News
IHD: Violations of rights of prisoners who were on hunger strike Reports

About us

The Kurdish Center for Human Rights was established in Geneva in 2000, according to the Suisse civil law. In response to the genocide, war crimes and human rights violations occurring across the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria.

The KCHR, as a non-profit organization of social utility, was born from the need to  inform the European and Swiss people and the OHCHR on human rights violations against the Kurds via seminars and other dialogue platforms and to attend their meetings; to establish a dialogue with NGO’s, civil movements, associations, government and civil institutions.. Read More….

Contact

Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
Kurdish Center for Human Rights

15, Rue des Savoises, 1205 Genève – Suisse
Tel :+41 (0)22 328 1984
Email: info@kurd-chr.ch / kurd.chr.geneve@gmail.com
Web : http://www.kurd-chr.ch

Compte : Post Finance – CENTRE KURDE
IBAN: CH40 0900 0000 17763911 5

Recent Posts

  • Earthquakes and Human Rights Violations in Turkey
  • KurdDAO Launches Fundraising Campaign in Support of Kurdish Human Rights
  • REPORT OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN TURKISH PRISONS
  • Repression Practices Against the Press and Journalists in Turkey
  • Iran must halt imminent execution of Kurdish prisoner – UN experts 

Search

March 2023
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
« Jan    

Information

  • Earthquakes and Human Rights Violations in Turkey
  • REPORT OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN TURKISH PRISONS
  • Repression Practices Against the Press and Journalists in Turkey
  • Iran must halt imminent execution of Kurdish prisoner – UN experts 
  • Press briefing notes on Turkey

Archives

Copyright © 2023 Kurdish Centre for Human Rights.

Powered by PressBook Green WordPress theme