Prisoners on hunger strike call for solidarity
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- 10:26 09/12/2020
The prisoners in the 3rd group who took over the hunger strike against isolation in Düzce T Type Closed Prison called for support and growing solidarity for their action.
The prisoners in the 3rd group who took over the hunger strike against isolation in Düzce T Type Closed Prison called for support and growing solidarity for their action.
HDP Parliamentary Group Deputy Chair Oluç and HDP İstanbul Co-Chair Bulut and Avcı have held a press conference after covert listening devices known as “bugs” were found in the HDP İstanbul Provincial Organization building in Taksim.
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.
Peace Mothers who laid down their white scarves for the national unity of the Kurds, stated that the policies of the KDP is only serving those who is against the Kurds and said 'Enough is enough'.
HDP Mersin provincial executive Ali Bilen was detained.
Reports are coming through of casualties during the growing protests in Southern Kurdistan, Northern Iraq.
After the earthquake in Kurtalan, 408 prisoners were sent to Batman Beşiri T Type Prison without informing their families.
Police attacked TJA Van components protesting the rape of a child in Gercüş, Batman and forcefully removed the journalists from the area.
The people of Shengal protested the agreement made between Hewlér and Baghdad with a mass rally.
HDP MP Feleknas Uca asked a parliamentary question about the broadcasting ban on the news of the rape of a child in Batman, by police officers, expert sergeants and village guards for Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gül to answer.
Making a statement on the rape of a child in Gercüş and declaring it a 'perception operation', the police, governorship and chief public prosecutor's office targeted journalists who exposed the rape.
The third group took over the hunger strike initiated in prisons against the Imrali isolation. DBP former Co-chair Sebahat Tuncel is among the new group who took over the hunger strike.
Honorary President of the İHD, Akın Birdal, stated that the isolation imposed on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan is a "human rights issue" and underlined that the isolation should be ended and Imrali should be closed.
After it was reported in the press that 27 men including specialist sergeants, police officers and village guards sexually abused a child, two men from the same village has been arrested as part of the investigation launched into the incident.
It was stated that the prisoners on hunger strike in Eskişehir Type H Closed Prison were mistreated. Families of the prisoners stated that the wards are being raided 3 times a day and even the papers and pens were confiscated.