CHP: 1677 people died in prison in the last ten years

July 27, 2012July 10, 2019 Centre Kurde Genève

Republican’s People Party CHP deputy, Gürkut Acar had asked the minister of justice a specific question on the issue. Minister Sadullah Ergin answered that in the last 10 years the number of prisoners who died in prison was 1677.

In 2012, so far, 52 people have died while in prison.

It is known that there are at least 204 prisoners in need of urgent care.

Here the full detail of prisoners who died in jail since 2002:

in 2002, 89 prisoners
in 2003, 163 prisoners
in 2004, 54 prisoners
in 2005, 59 prisoners
in 2006, 157 prisoners
in 2007, 176 prisoners
in 2008, 211 prisoners
in 2009, 196 prisoners
in 2010, 252 prisoners
in 2011, 268 prisoners
in 2012, 52 prisoners

Prisons, Reports, Turkey

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