HUMAN RIGHTS

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• Leaked letters reveal Iran’s denial of COVID-19 crisis in prisons 

  Amnesty International has received distressing reports of prisoners displaying COVID-19 symptoms being neglected for days.
• Sick prisoners in Istanbul show Covid-19 symptoms 

  In a prison near Istanbul, three inmates show partly severe symptoms of coronavirus infection. The inmates are two paralyzed prisoners and another one who does not have hands.
• Five prisoners with Covid in Tarsus prison not treated 

  Five prisoners were diagnosed with coronavirus in Tarsus Prison, but were not treated.
• Ünsal's father: Our children on death fast are left to die 

  Nihat Ünsal is tired of the endless lawlessness used against his son, lawyer Aytaç Ünsal on death fast demanding a fair trial.
• Latin American countries improve LGBT community rights  

  Latin American countries intensify their fight to support the LGBTI community.
• Six prisoners on hunger strike protest deportation 

  Prisoners held in two separate cells in groups of three started a hunger strike against this inhuman practice.
• Mapuche prisoners denounce conditions in jail 

  The attacks are attributed to the Mapuche people's cause of territorial claims. The members of the community are often accused without any concrete evidence.
• The smuggling of ISIS women from Hol camp, new report by WDR 

  Women Support Rojava has published a new dossier called Turkey’s support for ISIS members. The smuggling of ISIS Women from al-Hol Camp.
• IHD president speaks out for lawyers on death fast 

  IHD co-chair Öztürk Türkdoğan spoke about lawyers on death fast Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal and said that every negative outcome that may occur will be a shame not only for government but for the whole society.
• Prisoner Subaşı has cancer and must be released, says the IHD 

  IHD Istanbul Branch Prison Commission said that Hasan Subaşı, who is suffering from cancer, should be released immediately.
• Demo for lawyers on death fast in Istanbul 

  A demonstration was held in Istanbul for imprisoned lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal. Both have been on death fast for months and were taken to a hospital two days ago where they are threatened with forced feeding.
• Yazidi child survivors of IS facing unprecedented health crisis 

  Amnesty International called for international organizations such as the UNHCR to prioritize and fast-track these women and children for resettlement or humanitarian relocation, with the co-operation of the national authorities and foreign governments.
• Prisoners in Silivri go on hunger strike for Timtik and Ünsal 

  Lawyer Yaprak Türkmen said that the political prisoners in Silivri Prison No. 9, who protested the forced hospitalization of lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal, burned cells and went on an indefinite hunger strike.
• No companion allowed beside lawyer on death fast  

  Lawyer Timtik fell to 35 kilos and cannot meet her needs alone. 
• Imprisoned lawyers on death fast forcibly hospitalized 

  Lawyers Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal, both of whom are on death fast demanding a fair trial, have not been released from prison despite a medical report finding them incapable of imprisonment. The lawyers were forcibly taken to hospital instead.
• Turkish Court refuses to release two lawyers on death fast 

  Despite the fact that Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal have been found incapable of imprisonment by forensic medicine, the competent Istanbul court has refused to release them from prison. The two lawyers are in mortal danger after months of death fast.
• Colombian social leader Yaneth Mosquera survives bomb attack 

  Besides leading the "Woman with Courage" foundation, Mosquera is the Popayan region’s Africa community council coordinator.
• Lawyers demand release of their colleagues on death fast 

  Imprisoned lawyers on death fast, Ebru Timtik and Aytaç Ünsal have been transferred from Silivri prison to the forensic department. Colleagues in Istanbul demanded their immediate release.
• Lawyers take the contact ban with Imralı to the ECtHR 

  The Turkish Constitutional Court has rejected the lifting of the ban on contact with Abdullah Öcalan and his three fellow prisoners on Imrali. The defence team has now taken the case to the European Court of Human Rights.
• UN: peaceful assembly is a fundamental human right 

  UN Human Rights Committee published interpretation on the right of peaceful assembly.
• HRW: Turkey's police and watchmen involved in torture 

  “Turkish authorities should immediately investigate these credible allegations of serious abuse and hold those responsible accountable," said deputy program director at Human Rights Watch.
• IHD says prisoners are at risk of torture and harassment 

  Among the issues are those related to the right to health particularly in prisons in Central Anatolia where the regulatory requirements of the prisoners and international agreements signed by Turkey are not met.
• Women prisoners expose rights violations in Sincan jail 

  Pressures on political prisoners in Turkey and Kurdistan jails continue to increase. Sick prisoners in Sincan Women's Closed Prison are not transferred to the hospital.
• Behrouz Boochani granted asylum in New Zealand 

  Kurdish journalist and writer Behrouz Boochani spent more than six years in Australian immigration detention on a small island in the Pacific. Now he has been granted asylum in New Zealand.
• PAJK calls for other methods of struggle than hunger strike 

  Berbihîv Amed of the prison committee of the women's party PAJK calls for resistance methods other than hunger strike, saying that the struggle must be shifted outside instead of hunger strikes in the prisons.