Mezopotamya Women Journalists Platform (MKGP) declared that many journalists welcomed May 3-World Press Freedom Day as prisoners as they state: "We know, we will be on the fields again, we will meet again in the news and the more they imprison, the more we will resist for freedom."
ÖHD, TUHAY-DER and the Van Bar Association's report on Van Patnos L Type Prison said, “Amid the coronavirus pandemic, prisoners meet their hygene needs with unclean water mixed with drain water, increasing the risk of prisoners' lives."
Various organizations coming together for the national unity in Qamışlo declared the initiative consisting of 11 people with the slogan "National initiative for the Unity of the Kurds".
Journalism is among the most dangerous professions in Turkey, stated Dicle-Fırat Journalists Association (DFG) in their report on the last 4 months that they announced regaring the May 3, World Press Freedom Day.
Mazlum Dağ and Muhammet Beşiksiz, who are accused of killing Osman Köse, he diplomat working in Turkey's Hewlêr Consulate General, state that they are threatened with death at the Hewlêr Police Headquarters and they had been exposed to torture.
HDP Dersim MP Alican Önlü asked the AKP President Tayyip Erdoğan about the Dersim Massacre that happeed 83 years ago: "Will you establish a truth commission in order to accept May 4 as "Tertele" ("Massacre") and as a memorial day"?
As Sweden handed political refugee Resul Özdemir back to Turkey, his lawyer Naim Akbulak shared the information that his client was brought back to Turkey with no information shared with his family and his client told him that was subjected to torture with techniques in Turkish intelligence (MIT) and anti-terror office (TEM), including electricity shocks
The families of the prisoners, who stated that no precautions were taken in prisons against the coronavirus epidemic, asked for the release of the political prisoners before the deaths occur.
The lawyers of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan stated that even the phone call right Mr. Öcalan could have used after 21 years was applied unjustly and said that "The justice and sollution attempts in İmralı should be focused'.
Kurdish politician Halil Aksoy, who is imprisoned in Ağrı Kandıra Prison, reported that the medications he uses due to his chronic illnesses were given late and that no hygiene material has been given despite the risk of the pandemic and a bar of soap was given to them 2 months ago.
HDP former Co-Chair Figen Yüksekdağ, sending a message to the Twin Family Campaign, said: "We must raise solidarity and fraternity in these hard days."
Grup Yorum made a call for their death fasting member İbrahim Gökçek and said: "Don't cause any more deaths. Meet the demands of İbrahim Gökçek."
Istanbul prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for Birgün columnist Erk Acarer over a report covering the funeral ceremony of an operative of the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MİT) killed in Libya. Acarer, who is now living in exile in Germany, is one of the eight journalists standing trial in the case.
Tomorros is May 3 World Press Freedom Day. Turkey, which ranks 154th in 180 countries in press freedom still has more than 100 journalists behind bars. Representatives of professional organizations, stressed that journalists in Turkey are in a position where they are worse than dead.
Aynur Aşa, who shared that she has not been able to visit his husband Hasan Aşa in Diyarbakır No 4 Type T Prison for a month and half, said she was worried about his husbands life who has some chronic diseases, because of the outbreak.