HUMAN RIGHTS

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• Petition calls on Switzerland to stop deportation of two Kurds 

  A petition has been launched to halt Switzerland’s decision to deport asylum seekers from Maxmur camp, brothers Abdulkarim and Ahmed Tallı, who came to Switzerland four years ago to Turkey.
• Ill prisoner tests positive to coronavirus 

  63-year-old Nimet Değiş, who has been in prison for almost 29 years and is now in Maraş Türkoğlu L Type Closed Prison, has tested positive to coronavirus.
• Relatives of prisoners in Imrali apply for a visit 

  The families of the Kurdish people's leader and other prisoners in Imralı applied for a visit.
• Solidarity Initiative with Dağ and Er meets Amnesty International 

  The Solidarity Initiative met with Amnesty International Switzerland branch to demand a repeal of the death penalty on Mazlum Dağ and Abdurrahman Er in Southern Kurdistan, Northern Iraq.
• Extra punishments to prisoners on hunger strike 

  Gurbet Ceylan and Leyla Saraç, who are on hunger strike in Bayburt M-Type Closed Prison, said that prisoners who sing in Kurdish and dance are punished with a ban on communication.
• Third group of prisoners takes over hunger strike  

  The hunger strike launched by prisoners to demand the end of the isolation of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan and to end the violations in prisons has reached day 13 and has been taken over by the 3rd group.
• Child abused by family and teachers in Istanbul 

  Saadet Teacher Association for Combating Child Abuse announced that a child in Istanbul was sexually assaulted by his teachers as well as his father and uncle for years.
• Prisoners on hunger strike call for solidarity 

  The prisoners in the 3rd group who took over the hunger strike against isolation in Düzce T Type Closed Prison called for support and growing solidarity for their action.
• HDP supports refugees in Mersin camp 

  Some 450 refugees live under catastrophic conditions in a refugee camp near Mersin. While the state is doing nothing, the HDP has taken practical steps to improve people's conditions.
• Seriously ill prisoner Turan remains in prison 

  The Constitutional Court rejected the demand to release seriously ill prisoner Abdullah Turan, who is paralyzed from the neck down, despite a report confirming that he cannot stay in prison.
• TJA activist Sevil Rojbin Çetin receives no medical treatment 

  Sevil Rojbin Çetin's family calls to release the TJA activist as she is not being treated in prison and her health situation is worsening.
• Guards seize the supplies of prisoners on hunger strike 

  Davut Barin, one of the prisoners on hunger strike in Eskişehir, revealed that their cells were raided and their materials and supplies such as salt and lemon, which are important for the blood pressure during food deprivation, were confiscated.
• Authorities take action against reporters instead of rapists 

  Following the rape of a 15-year-old girl by 27 people, mostly members of the Turkish security forces, in the province of Batman, the Turkish regime is attempting to criminalize reporting.
• Two workers die in work-related accident 

  Two workers lost their lives following the collapse of part of the quarry they were worked at in Arnavutköy.
• Prisoners in Siirt sent to Batman without informing families 

  After the earthquake in Kurtalan, 408 prisoners were sent to Batman Beşiri T Type Prison without informing their families.
• Women prisoners expose increase in rights violations in Gebze 

  Hatice Arat, who is held in Gebze Women's Closed Prison, emphasized that the harassment against prisoners have increased following the hunger strike actions against the Imrali isolation and called for sensitivity.
• Third group of prisoners takes over hunger strike  

  The third hunger strike group in prisons took over the protest.
• HDP MP: The demands of the hunger strikers must be met 

  Habip Eksik, an HDP deputy and physician, describes Abdullah Öcalan's isolation as a blatant violation of the law and says that the Turkish Ministry of Justice must immediately negotiate with the hunger-striking prisoners.
• Two prisoners on hunger strike in Düzce 

  The hunger strike resistance in prison continues with further participation.
• Women prisoners: On hunger strike to break isolation of Öcalan 

  Women prisoners on hunger strike said the aim of their action is to break the isolation imposed on Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan. "The aim is the freedom of our Leader," they said.
• Former DBP co-chair Sebahat Tuncel joins hunger strike 

  The DBP former co-chair, Sebahat Tuncel, who is in Kocaeli Kandıra No 1 F Type High Security Prison since 2016, has announced she will go on hunger strike against the isolation policy imposed on Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Prisoners on hunger strike denied medicine and face repression 

  Prisoners on hunger strike in Antalya L Type Prison said they face repression and are not given their medicines.
• Prisoners in Van join the hunger strike 

  It has been learned that 7 prisoners in Van have been hunger strike for 4 days.
• Condition of prisoner Turan getting worse 

  The situation of disabled prisoners Ergin Aktaş, Serdal Yıldırım and Abdullah Turan, is getting worse.
• Call for 16-year-old Erbaş killed by Turkish soldiers in Hakkari 

  IHD Children's Rights Commission urged Turkish authorities to launch an investigation into the soldiers who killed a 16-year-old, Özcan Erbaş in Hakkari province.