ANF spoke to Şehmuz Asi, father of PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) prisoner Cihan Asi who has been sentenced to a ten-days solitary confinement despite suffering from cancer.

Hundreds of ill prisoners in Turkish jails are not being released but being subject to solitary confinement as a result of arbitrary treatments and punishments.

One among these ill political prisoners is 32 year-old stomach cancer patient Cihan Asi who was jailed in 2009 after she was arrested at a hospital in Van while seeing a doctor for treatment. Asi was referred to Bitlis E Type prison, despite a report by Bitlis State Hospital which also diagnosed the woman with liver-dilatation. Following two years without any treatment, Asi was was referred to Aliağa Şakran Prison in İzmir  in 2012, a Turkish prison whose authority is known for its torture and right violations.

Asi's father Şehmuz remarks that his daughter is getting worse and worse every passing day, and that she is not being released despite all the applications he made to authorities including IHD (Human Rights Association) Mardin branch as well as the Ministry of Health and Justice.

Şehmuz says that he has learned about her daughter's solitary confinement when he spoke to her last Saturday.

“What is the reason of this much cruelty? The prison administration is sentencing ill prisoners to solitary confinement instead of liberating them from severe prison conditions. This is torture”, the father said.