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After a meeting promoted by Bingöl Bar Association, presidents of 14 bar associations in the Kurdish region released a joint statement. 14 bar associations in Turkey’s Kurdish region warned that hunger strikes in Turkish prisons have serious consequences for the health of prisoners and called for the legal demands of the prisoners to be fulfilled…
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Lawyer Ozgur Fayek Arul, “the attorney of the leader Ocalan,” explained that the Imrali prison system was built on conditions for imposing isolation, and now during every political and legal event in Turkey this question is raised, “How will this situation affect Imrali?” He stressed the need to abolish this system for Imrali. Any way….
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Sedat Karak is held in Maraş Türkoğlu L Type Closed Prison. In a phone call with his family he denounced that him and four other prisoners were attacked by guards. Ill prisoner Tenzile Acar should be released, says her mother Karak shared the following information: “30-40 guards entered the A-17 room where we stayed. The…
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The Asrin Law Office has issued a statement on the Turkey visit of the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT). The office, which represents Abdullah Öcalan and the other three prisoners on Imrali, criticizes the fact that no visit was made to the prison island and that it itself was not…
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Political prisoners suffered food poisoning in Van Prison, including journalist Cemil Uğur. The MA correspondent is in custody for “subversive reporting”. Mehmet Siraç Aslan remains in Aksaray T Type prison despite having served his sentence. Aslan has been repeatedly tortured. Hadi Yalçın, an ill prisoner who was in Edirne F Type Closed Prison, has lost…
According to reports received to the Human Rights Association Kurdistan (KMMK) e.V. , with the last four environmental, civilian activists in the different cities arrested, the number of detainees reached ninety-two persons. During the past two weeks, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard and intelligence forces of Iran initiated an operation to arrest many human rights, environmental,…
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The “Hunger Strikes Monitoring Coordination” established by IHD, TTB, ÖHD, HRFT and ÇHD stated that the isolation against Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan and abuses in prisons should be ended. The “Hunger strike Monitoring Coordination” established by the Human Rights Association (İHD), Turkish Medical Association (TTB), Free Lawyers Association (ÖHD), Contemporary Lawyers Association (ÇHD) held…
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