In the investigation launched for the riot in Batman Type M Prison, a decision of arrest was made for the 220 prisoners involved for 'damaging public property', 'Rebellion of prisoners and convicts', 'resisting to prevent performing duty'.
Heavily ill prisoners Sabri Kaya was put in the Intensive Care Unit 3 times while going back and forth between the hospital and prison for the last 20 days. Kaya's daughter Dilan Kaya demanded his release, calling for the people to hear their voice.
Families of the prisoners reaction to the law proposal on execution which is currently being discussed at the parliament, said: "The law proposal on execution contains hatred. We are concerned about the spread of the epidemic in prisons. The prisons must be evacuated immediately.
It was learned that a thousand TL was requested from a prisoner who was released from Siirt and going to Hakkari.
Turkish Minister of Health Fahrettin Koca announced the latest figures of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country on Twitter.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan did not accept Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu’ resignation.
The minister admitted to his failure in the management of the coronavirus crisis.
Stating that they have managed to contact 49 families within the scope of "Fellow Family Campaign" HDP Muğla Province Co-chair Fulya Erdoğan raised the call, “Let's knit the nets of solidarity together".
The Association of Lawyers for Freedom (ÖHD) Central Office has published a written statement to protest the delivery of the deceased body of Agit İpek to his family by a cargo package.
HDP's Member of the Parliement from Batman, Feleknas Uca stated that all political prisoners, especially PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan, should be released, pointing out that prisons are intended to be turned into mass graves.
The Kurdistani Alliance Study published a written statement regarding the new execution law proposal as the negotiations continue at the General Assembly of the Parliement regarding the exclusion of political prisoners.
Amed Labour and Democracy Platform declared a statement of protest regarding that the dead body of the Agit İpek has been sent to his family by a cargo package.
Stating that they go to their hospitals by their own means of transportation on the first day of the curfew and after they object to that a shuttle has been arranged for themselves, nure Doğan Güneş said that the the shuttle who has 14-people capacity carries 30 healthcare workers every day.
A prisoner in Van T Type Prison, stated that they were exposed to the violence by the prison guards who were called themselves as “Team A” and the prisoner called for public opinion to be sensitive on the increasing human rights violations in the prisons.
Announcing the report they prepared regarding the violations of rights in prisons, MED TUHAD-FED Federation stated that a doctor who has been visiting the wards in the Tarsus Prison for the medical examination of the prisoners tested positive for COVID-19.