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Human rights organizations demand release of prisoners

Posted on March 21, 2020March 25, 2020 By admin

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.

Numerous human rights organisations in Turkey, including the human rights association (IHD) and Amnesty International, are calling for immediate protection measures for prisoners in view of the Corona pandemic. In a joint statement, the organizations point out that approximately 300,000 people are in Turkish prisons and that the prisons are extremely overcrowded.

For this reason, they demand that all prisoners on remand and convicts who are in prison solely for exercising their freedom of expression and organisation be released unconditionally. Prisoners on remand who have not yet been sentenced should be released with reporting requirements, as should mothers with small children and all prisoners who belong to the risk group due to their age or chronic illness, demand the organisations.

Human rights organisations also demand education about the virus in prisons and the provision of cleaning products.

The Turkish Ministry of Justice has not yet drawn up emergency plans for the numerous prisons, despite the spread of the corona virus. Only prison visits have been suspended for the next two weeks and all court hearings have been postponed, except in urgent cases.

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The Kurdish Center for Human Rights was established in Geneva in 2000, according to the Suisse civil law. In response to the genocide, war crimes and human rights violations occurring across the Kurdish regions of Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Syria.

The KCHR, as a non-profit organization of social utility, was born from the need to  inform the European and Swiss people and the OHCHR on human rights violations against the Kurds via seminars and other dialogue platforms and to attend their meetings; to establish a dialogue with NGO’s, civil movements, associations, government and civil institutions.. Read More….

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