HUMAN RIGHTS

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• Guards search cells of Kurdish politicians Kocaeli Kandira prison 

  The cells of Kurdish politicians held in Kocaeli Kandıra No 1 F Type High Security Prison were searched.
• Ebru Timtik honored with CCBE posthumous Human Rights Award 

  The Council of Bars and Law Societies of Europe (CCBE) granted its 2020 Human Rights Award to seven Egyptian lawyers currently in prison and granted an exceptional posthumous Human Rights Award to Turkish lawyer Ebru Timtik who died in August 2020.
• IHD demands Ruken Yıldız release in weekly action for prisoners 

  This week the "F Session" was dedicated to prisoner Ruken Yıldız, who suffers from severe heart, blood pressure and anaemia. The IHD asked for Yıldız to be released.
• No justice for Roboski means no justice for Turkey 

  Already 3,258 days have passed since the Roboski massacre. The responsible of that massacre remained unpunished. But no justice for Roboski also means no justice for Turkey.
• Tribute to Tahir Elçi in Amed: Your dream is our dream 

  Five years after the killing Tahir Elçi, at the scene of the crime in the old cental district of Sur, the Amed Bar Association remembered the human rights lawyer: "Your dream of a democratic, free and peaceful life is also our dream.”
• Body of Kurdish guerrilla martyred in July not given to family 

  Bardakçı family raise their voice against authorities not giving them their son’s remains.
• IHD co-chair Türkdoğan: Imralı Prison must be closed 

  IHD co-chair Öztürk Türkdoğan stated that the isolation imposed on Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan is unlawful and "Imralı Prison must be closed”.
• Prisoners beaten in Malatya jail are on hunger strike 

  16 prisoners who were transferred to Malatya Akçadağ T Type Closed Prison announced that they have been on a hunger strike for 10 days to protest the beating and harassment during their transfer.
• Law organizations: We will continue to defend the Kurdish people 

  Law organizations criticized the detention of the lawyers from ÖHD in front of the Çağlayan Courthouse and expressed that; “No force can silence us. Our rank is on the side of the workers, the oppressed, the Kurdish people.”
• Constitutional Court: Fine for sit-in action is a right violation 

  Issuing a precedent decision, the Constitutional Court of Turkey ruled that the administrative fines issued for sit-in actions by those dismissed from public service constitute a violation of right.
• Feleknas Uca tables question on Afrin to Turkish Foreign Minister 

  HDP Batman MP Feleknas Uca, tabled a question to Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu on the human rights violations in Afrin and women abducted by mercenary groups linked Turkey.
• Legal reform possible by ending isolation, says Öcalan's lawyer 

  Underlining that the isolation imposed on Abdullah Öcalan has no legal explanation, lawyer Serdar Celebi said: "Legal reform can only be possible by ending isolation."
• Tuberculosis epidemic in Şakran Prison 

  The prisoners in Şakran T Type Closed Prison are reported to have caught the tuberculosis epidemic along with Covid-19. It is informed that the prison administration concealed the epidemic and did not take any measures.
• Martyr remains buried in hurry without waiting for DNA test 

  The remains of martyr Abdullah Kocak were buried without waiting for the DNA test.
• Finucane: Public judicial inquiry needed into murder of my father 

  John Finucane, Sinn Féin Member of Parliament for North Belfast, wrote a letter to all MPs in Westminster to ask a public judicial inquiry into the murder of his father, lawyer Pat Finucane.
• Trial on the death of 2-year-old Mawda opens today in Belgium 

  The trial against about the death of Mawda, a 2-year-old Kurdish girl who died in Belgium after police opened fire on a vehicle carrying refugees in 2018, opens today.
• Old enough to be jailed, too small to paint 

  Arin Hevi, one and a half years old, is in prison with her mother. Her father brought her a coloring book and pencils, but they were not handed over to her because she is supposedly too small for them.
• KCDK-E condemns Romania for deporting Kurdish citizens to Turkey 

  Almost forty Kurdish asylum seekers have been extradited from Romania to Turkey. The Kurdish umbrella organization KCDK-E condemned the deportations as contrary to international law and protested the organized structures of the Turkish state in Europe.
• UN urge Iraq to halt mass executions 

  UN human rights experts on Friday voiced alarm at reports that a further 50 terror convicts were facing execution in Iraq on Monday, as they urged Baghdad to halt all "mass executions".
• Translation fee imposed on prisoners writing letters in Kurdish 

  Translation fee is charged from detainees in Diyarbakır Women's Prison for letters in Kurdish. While correspondences in different languages are free of charge, it is noteworthy that a fee is charged only for Kurdish language.
• Human Rights Association condemns political genocide 

  IHD (Human Rights Association) branch in Amed (Diyarbakir) criticizes political genocide operations, saying; "The freedom and security of individuals are unfortunately violated with impunity.”
• IHD: 49 people have died in prison since the beginning of 2020 

  The Human Rights Association (IHD) said that 49 prisoners have lost their lives since the beginning of 2020. Allegedly, 15 have committed suicide. Since 15 April 4 seriously ill prisoners over 70 have lost their life due to Covid-19
• Iranian forces kill two more kolbars 

  Two kolbars lost their lives as a result of the fire opened by Iranian soldiers on the border.
• Cold water shower torture in Patnos L-Type Prison 

  Yakup Turgut who is jailed in Patnos L-Type Prison said they are forced to shower with cold and dirty water.
• FCK-BW-BAYERN condemns practices in Stammheim Prison 

  The FCK-BN-BAYERN Federation condemned the practices against Kurdish prisoners in Stammheim Prison in Stuttgart, refering to the practices during the "Nazi period".