Kurdish Centre for Human Rights
Centre Kurde des Droits de l’Homme
The mothers who were detained on Thursday and Friday as they were holding a vigil in front of the Bakirköy Prison to draw attention to the hunger strikes and death fasts in prisons against the Imrali isolation were taken to the Istanbul Vatan Police Headquarters Security Department Directorate where they were subjected to strip searches and insults.
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The Human Rights Association has called for the immediate removal of Abdullah Öcalan’s isolation. IHD in Diyarbakir an event was held by relatives of the “disappeared” has called for the immediate removal of Abdullah Öcalan’s isolation.
In the prisons in Van province, the right to solicitor consultations for hunger strikers has been restricted.Reports of arbitrary treatment and repression of hunger strikers in the prisons of Turkey and Northern Kurdistan are on the rise.
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The Human Rights Association (IHD) announced its 2018 Violations of Rights Report. According to the Report, the right to life of 673 people, including 32 children, was violated. Thousands of cases of torture and ill-treatment occurred during the year, while more than a thousand people were arrested in the context of the so called political genocide.
Authoritarian Regime and the Order of Permanent State of Emergency 2018 has been a year during which elections to build an authoritarian regime based on a single-man rule were held and the permanent state of emergency was established in Turkey.
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ÖHD co-chair lawyer Raziye Turgut pointed out that the prisoners who have been on hunger strike since 16 December have already overcome the critical stage.
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IHD Diyarbakir Chapter Minors Commission pointed out that the Turkish state has violated international treaties and said: “There are at least 743 children with their mothers in prisons.”
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Working people live more dangerously in Turkey than in other countries: At least 1923 people died at work in the previous year alone. In the past five years, dangerous jobs have cost more than 10,000 workers in Turkey – of which a quarter in the construction sector alone.
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