HUMAN RIGHTS

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• Konya Massacre Trial: A pre-prepared script put on stage 

  While the hearing of the Konya Massacre Trial was postponed to February 8, the arrest request for the defendants was rejected.
• Israel police used excessive force during May unrest: HRW 

  Human Rights Watch has accused Israel of committing crimes of apartheid against Palestinians in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and inside Israel.
• IHD demands an end to Öcalan’s isolation, and justice for ill prisoners 

  Several branches of the Human Rights Association (IHD) protested the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan, saying “Recommendations of the CPT and Mandela Rules are disregarded. The isolation should be lifted.”
• Şenyaşar family: The prosecutor is committing a crime! 

  Ferit Şenyaşar, who has been holding a justice vigil in front of Urfa Courthouse together with his mother, condemned the prosecutor defining the massacre of their family members in a hospital as an “unsolved murder.”
• Activist woman carries out vigil for her brother in prison 

  İnci Güler Altındağ, an activist of the Justice Vigil at the Amed Bar Association demands justice for her prisoner brother Abdülselam Güler who has been in prison for 29 years.
• Lawyers of Abdullah Öcalan apply for a visit 

  Lawyers of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and İmralı Prison Directorate to meet with their client.
• Trial on racist killing of Kurdish family in Konya begins 

  The trial for the racist massacre that took place on 30 July in Konya opened today.
• IHD holds vigil to promote freedom of political thought on Human Rights Week 

  IHD Adıyaman Branch visited HDP Adıyaman Provincial Organization and held a “freedom of political thought” vigil to draw attention to the closure case brought against the party.
• 82-year-old ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan returns to jail 

  Ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan, who was diagnosed with coronavirus, was taken to prison once again from the hospital where he was treated.
• Şenyaşar family continues their Vigil for Justice on day 279 

  The Şenyaşar family continues their struggle to achieve justice for their relatives who were murdered in Urfa.
• Keskin: The prison administration is responsible for Garibe's death! 

  IHD Co-chair Eren Keskin defined Garibe Gezer, who died suspiciously at Kandıra Prison, as a woman who was aware of her rights and did not bow down to authority and added: "Suicide or murder, the prison administration is responsible for Garibe's death."
• Justice vigil by prisoners' families reaches day 26 

  Justice vigil by prisoners' families reaches day 26
• ‘Five years after visit by UN Special Rapporteur, torture remains widespread in Turkey’ 

  “Resetting the anti-torture agenda is a matter of vital importance for a much-needed broader rule of law programme for the country. The current situation in Turkey demands urgent steps to prevent torture and ill-treatment and address impunity."
• Women take coffin of Garibe Gezer from morgue 

  The body of Garibe Gezer, who died suspiciously in prison, was taken from the morgue by the women with the slogan "martyr namirin" (martyrs never die).
• Gezer's preliminary autopsy report says cause of death could not be determined 

  Garibe Gezer died suspiciously in Kandıra Prison. In the preliminary autopsy report it was written that the cause of death could not be determined.
• Victim of torture and rape in prison dies 

  Kurdish political prisoner Garibe Gezer has died in High Security Prison in Kandıra. The prison management claimed that she committed suicide.
• Justice Vigil for ill prisoners launched in Van after Amed 

  While the Justice Vigil for ill prisoners continues in Amed, families of prisoners started another Justice Vigil in the Van Bar Association.
• Strip-searching continues in Türkoğlu L Type Closed Prison 

  Strip-searching continues in Türkoğlu L Type Closed Prison. Prisoners there are also denied the right to treatment.
• Prisoners in Van see their sentences arbitrarily extended 

  Several political prisoners in the Van are being held beyond their regular prison term on the pretext of disciplinary punishment. Van's F-Type Prison was extended for the second time by six months.
• HDP says Turkey must comply with ECtHR ruling on Öcalan and other prisoners 

  HDP Group Deputy Chair Meral Danış Beştaş said that the recent ruling of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on Abdullah Öcalan is important for Turkey's political history and stressed that Turkey must comply with the ECtHR ruling.
• 83-year-old prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan admitted to intensive care 

  Despite his serious illness, 83-year-old prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan, has not been released. On Tuesday, he was moved to intensive care after contracting coronavirus. His condition is said to be critical.
• ‘As long as justice for Paris killings is denied, France remains guilty,’ say Kurds in France 

  The Kurdish Women’s Movement in France and the Democratic Kurdish Council in France called for participation in demonstrations and marches to be held on the 9th anniversary of the killings in Paris of three Kurdish women politicians.
• Şenyaşar family continues its Vigil for Justice on 272nd day 

  The Şenyaşar family continues its Vigil for Justice and said that "if there is a government that protects the oppressor, it should be destroyed".
• Saturday Mothers demand justice for Ibrahim Demir and Agit Akipa 

  On 12 December 1991, Ibrahim Demir and Agit Akipa were arrested in İdil, Şırnak for demanding an end to the military siege in their village. One day later, relatives found their bodies covered with torture marks.
• IHD: “It is our right to lead a free and peaceful life” 

  Turkish specialist sergeant Musa Orhan, who raped Ipek Er and drove her to suicide, was sentenced to prison but plea for his arrest was denied.