Since 25 October, political prisoner Abdurrahman Gemicioğlu, detained in Van's F-Type Prison, has been in the intensive care unit at the city's University Hospital. He is suffering from colon cancer and had to be intubated at the hospital. Despite his extremely poor health, soldiers are standing guard inside and outside the ward.

His daughter Elif Gemicioğlu reported that the soldiers did not allow her to see her father in the hospital.

Her father's health is deteriorating day by day, said Elif Gemicioğlu. Pointing out that her father's handcuffs are not removed even during treatment, she said: "My father's condition is very serious, his right to life is being taken away. A report from the Forensic Medicine Institute (ATK) is being delayed. My father is being deliberately sent to death. The forensic medicine should submit the report as soon as possible before anything happens to my father. We are watching my father being left to die. We demand that all institutions and authorities, especially the Ministry of Justice, act before anything happens to my father. No one can remain silent about this situation."

"They are not releasing my father, they are sending him to his death"

Elif Gemicioğlu added: "My father was arrested in 2012 as part of the KCK operation and then released on conditional release. The Court of Cassation confirmed the verdict and a new arrest warrant was issued. He had a prostate disease and then developed colon cancer and had to undergo several operations. Many other illnesses appeared while he was in custody. He was intubated in hospital and can no longer breathe on his own.

He suffers from kidney and heart failure. He can no longer see either. My father was hospitalized 26 times in 23 days and is now in intensive care. His legs no longer support him, he can no longer walk. He is in no way able to take care of himself. The public and the authorities must pay close attention to this situation. We want him to be treated in a better hospital, but this is not allowed. They are not releasing my father, they are sending him to his death."