Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
The prisoners’ families made an application to the Ministry, the Parliament and CIMER demanding the release of prisoners as the coronavirus outbreak poses a great risk for those in prison.
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European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment CPT statetement:
The Association of Lawyers for Freedom (ÖHD) and MED Federation of Solidarity Associations with Families of Prisoners (MED-TUHAD FED) visited 12 prisons in the cities of Nortth Kurdistan amid the rapid spread of the coronavirus in Turkey and compiled a report to expose the situation and denounced that prisoners are not given masks and disinfectants.
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“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.”
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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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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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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In Manisa T Type Closed Prison, prisoners who rejected the standing count in a 20-person ward last Thursday were tortured in a dark room. According to information given by the same prisoners, they were dragged to the ground by the guards. Prisoners with many torture marks on their bodies were also not treated.
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