The Federation of the Associations in Solidarity with Prisoners' Families (MED TUHAD-FED) has released its weekly report of rights violations in prisons.

The report pointed out that the number of people who died due to coronavirus increases by the day, and that prisons are among the places where the risk of contracting the virus is higher. The report condemned the law of execution and asked for it to inclose all prisoners. 

MED TUHAD-FED compiled the report after gathering information from families and lawyers. 

"In the weekly visit held with their families by prisoners in Diyarbakır D Type Closed Prison, prisoners said that the food is very bad and there are insects in it. 

Again, in the same prison, the water was constantly stopped and the smell of sewage was constantly coming to the wards.

Families of prisoners in Diyarbakır D Type Prison have filed a complaint with the prosecutor regarding the fact that petitions were not received.

During the weekly phone conversations with the families, detainees in Kahramanmaraş Türkoğlu C.İ.K. said the guards entered the wards and threatened prisoners totally ignoring the need to mantain social distance.

Ramazan Simit, Harun Simit, and Fırat Kırdağ, who were jailed in Van T-type Prison on 3 April, were beaten and not taken to the hospital.

In Kayseri Bünyan Women's Prison, many prisoners suffered from vision loss, burning throat and not breathing, but despite this, they were not taken to the hospital;

In Sanliurfa Hilvan T-type Prison, prisoners were not taken to the infirmary.

Prisoners who had serious complaints such as kidney disease and heart disease were not taken to the hospital in Hilvan Prison.

It was disclosed that the doctor in Tarsus T-type Prison went to the wards for examination and that later on proved positive to Covid-19.

The report ended by stating the following: "In order to protect the prisons from the epidemic, without delay, it is necessary to amend the existing law of execution and create a more inclusive, egalitarian and non-discriminatory law. The calls of national and international human rights organizations should be listened to. The epidemic affects everyone. It does not discriminate. We are renewing our call to abandon discriminatory regulations and listen to democratic public calls."