HUMAN RIGHTS

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• Prosecutor's Office rejects request to release 83-year-old seriously ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan 

  The request to release 83-year-old seriously ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan, who has been in prison for 26 years, was rejected.
• Disciplinary investigation against 52 prisoners in Adana for protesting violation of their rights 

  A disciplinary investigation was launched against 52 prisoners held in Adana Kürkçüler F Type Closed Prison because of their protest against rights violations.
• Lawyers leave courtroom during Saturday Mothers' trial 

  Lawyers walked out of a Turkish courtroom during the hearing of the lawsuit against the Saturday Mothers after the court had rejected recusation for a second time.
• Şenyaşar Family: “Let's stop the rot”  

  The Şenyaşar Family said that “those who destroy justice and the law are doomed to fail. Let's stop the rot.”
• Human rights activist turns herself in in response to the repression of Kurds 

  The renowned human rights activist and lawyer Margaret Owen has sent pictures of herself with fighters of the YPG and YPJ to the public prosecutor's office in protest against the repression of Kurds in Europe and has turned herself in.
• Saturday Mothers reject trial: “This case is null and void for us" 

  Saturday Mothers made a statement before the hearing of the lawsuit against them and announced that, “This case is null and void for us.”
• Asrın Law Office lawyers apply to the Ministry of Justice to visit Imrali 

  Asrın Law Office lawyers applied to the Ministry of Justice, General Directorate of Prisons and Detention Houses and Human Rights Department to meet with Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan and the other prisoners in İmralı.
• International organisations submit expert opinion ahead of Saturday Mothers trial 

  The Bar Human Rights Committee of England & Wales (BHRC) and ARTICLE 19 submitted an expert opinion in the case of Saturday Mothers ahead of the third hearing today.
• Families of prisoners call for support for resistance 

  The Justice Vigil launched by the families of prisoners in Amed (Diyarbakır) continued on its 8th day. Families called for support for their resistance.
• Heyva Sor sends emergency supplies to refugees on Polish-Belarusian border 

  Emergency supplies provided by Heyva Sor for refugees stuck at the Polish-Belarusian border are on their way.
• Vigil Justice for ill prisoners enters seventh day 

  The Vigil Justice launched in Amed for ill prisoners entered its 7th day. A call was made for public awareness.
• Video of police beating and arresting young man in Sur released 

  The moments when the police beat and detained Tacettin Aslan in the side streets of Sur in Amed were captured on camera. The young man was arrested on the grounds of "resistance to the police".
• Turkish state killed at least 228 children in 10 years 

  The Human Rights Association (İHD) Amed Branch made a statement to mark World Children's Day on 20 November, when the United Nations (UN) Convention on the Rights of the Child was adopted.
• TIHV report: Thirty-nine percent of Academics for Peace don't have a full-time job 

  The State of Emergency Commission is committing a crime by continuing the "de facto punishment" of the academics despite the Constitutional Court ruling, TİHV stated.
• Ill prisoners in Kürkçüler F Type Prison continue to be denied treatment 

  Fatih Özgür Aydın is in Kürkçüler F Type Prison. He could not be treated due to the "oral search" imposed on him.
• Families of ill prisoners on vigil for 3 days: We won’t stop until we get results! 

  The vigil of the relatives of ill prisoners at the Amed Bar Association is on the third day. Families vowed to continue their resistance until they get results.
• Efe: Torture is used for subjugation in today’s Turkey 

  Ümit Efe of the Human Rights Foundation in Turkey (TIHV) compares the practice of torture today with that after the 1980 military coup, saying that then torture was used to coerce statements; today it is used to subjugate.
• Şenyaşar family says prosecutor's duty is not to be a partner in crime 

  The Şenyaşar family slammed the Urfa Chief Public Prosecutor saying that, “Your duty is not to 'participate in a crime' by covering up the massacre committed by the ruling party deputy and his family."
• HDP files criminal complaint against former intelligence official who confessed to torture 

  HDP filed a criminal complaint against former MIT Counter-Terrorism Department Head Mehmet Eymür and state officials who confessed to torture.
• Seriously ill prisoner Özkan bedridden. His daughter says: "Act now, tomorrow may be too late" 

  Selma Özkan, daughter of seriously ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan, said that her father was now bedridden and could not even get on the phone. She called on everyone to act now, as "tomorrow may be too late."
• 165 workers died at work in the month of October, says Health and Safety Labor Watch 

  The Health and Safety Labor Watch released its monthly report on deaths in the workplace for October and recorded 165 deaths.
• Prisoner punished for dancing halay and writing in Kurdish 

  Mahmut Olgun a prisoner in Silivri jail, said that he was sentenced for dancing halay and writing books in Kurdish.
• Relatives of ill prisoners start Vigil for Justice at premises of Amed Bar Association 

  The relatives of ill prisoners started a Vigil for Justice in the premises of Amed Bar Association.
• Repression of women prisoners in Urmia resumes 

  After nearly two years of ill-treatment and torture in Urmia prison, new methods of pressure are now used against female prisoners who said that they would start protesting again.
• TIP MP Atay pays solidarity visit to Emine Şenyaşar's "Vigil for Justice” 

  TIP MP Barış Atay visited Emine Şenyaşar's "Vigil for Justice" and expressed his party's full solidarity with the senior citizen.