Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
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While the hunger strike started in prisons against the isolation in İmralı is on day 21, DTK Co-chair Leyla Güven who initiated the hunger strike action with the same demand 2 years ago said: “Termination of the isolation is the demand of millions.”
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Addressing the lawmakers at the General Assembly of the Parliament, HDP Kocaeli MP Gergerlioğlu has said that he cannot get an answer to his Parliamentary questions regarding the violations of rights in Turkey’s prisons.
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The lawyer of the leader Abdullah Ocalan Mazlûm Dînç pointed out they had sent their report to the European Committee against Torture (CPT), regarding the violation of international laws practiced in Imrali prison, and said,” the mission of this committee is to stop torture, not just document it.”
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Eleven political prisoners in Diyarbakir women’s prison describe the prison conditions in a letter to human rights lawyer Eren Keskin. The pandemic is being used as an alibi for degrading treatment.
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The Constitutional Court rejected the demand to release seriously ill prisoner Abdullah Turan, who is paralyzed from the neck down, despite a report confirming that he cannot stay in prison.
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Prisoners in Turkey started a five-day alternating hunger strike on 27 November to protest the isolation of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and mistreatments in Turkish prisons. The strike, which started with the participation of many prisoners across several different prisons, was taken over by a third group on 7 December.
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A criminal complaint was filed against journalist Ayşegül Doğan, a program coordinator of İMC TV, which was closed down by a governmental decree (KHK), on the grounds of her journalistic activities and her alleged activity within the Democratic Society Congress (DTK).
Read More “Journalist Doğan sentenced to 6 years in prison” »
Violence and harassment against the prisoners who are on hunger strike in Gebze Women’s Closed Prison increased after the action was launched.
Read More “Women prisoners expose increase in rights violations in Gebze” »