HUMAN RIGHTS

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• Signatures collected for Dağ and Er to be submitted to the UN 

  The signatures collected for Mazlum Dağ and Abdurrahman Er, who received capital punishment in Southern Kurdistan, will be delivered to the UN and European institutions.
• Kalkandere L Type Prison became a torture center 

  Prisoner Serhat Karsu, held in a solitary cell in Rize Kalkandere L Type Prison, was tortured and his belongings were confiscated.
• Second groups have taken over the hunger strike in prisons 

  The second groups have taken over the alternating hunger strike launched in prisons by political prisoners to denounce the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Prisoners on hunger strike: We'll resist till isolation is lifted 

  The prisoners on hunger strike against the Imrali isolation send a message: "We will be on hunger strike until the isolation is lifted."
• Contact ban for Zeynab Jalalian 

  For three weeks now, an arbitrary ban on contact has been in effect for Kurdish political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian, who is being held in Iran. According to human rights activists, she is under pressure to "show remorse" and to "cooperate" with the regime.
• Prisoners on hunger strike: Give voice to our action 

  The prisoners on hunger strike called on the public to "give a voice to our action".
• Second groups to take over the hunger strike in prisons tomorrow 

  The second groups will take over the hunger strike launched by political prisoners to denounce the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Prisoner Rojbin Çetin gets no treatment for cancer 

  Prisoner Rojbin Çetin, who is suffering from cancer, is not being treated.
• British government rejects call for Finucane inquiry 

  The British government has again refused to establish a public inquiry into the murder of Pat Finucane, the 39-year-old defence lawyer shot dead in front of his family in Belfast in 1989 by paramilitaries acting on direction of the British Armed Forces.
• Hunger strike in prisons on day 4 

  PKK and PAJK prisoners in Turkey started indefinite and alternating hunger strike hunger strikes on November 27.
• Today the Finucane Family meets British Secretary of State 

  Today the Finucane Family meet British Secretary of State Brandon Lewis to hear how the British government will respond to the Supreme Court ruling that previous investigations into the murder of human rights lawyer Patrick Finucane, were not effective.
• 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.