Prisoners in Sincan subjected to disciplinary punishments
Prisoners in Sincan subjected to disciplinary punishments
“The prisoners in Sincan (Ankara) F type Prison Nr. 2 are subjected to arbitrary disciplinary investigation and punishments. With no legal basis we are being deprived of our rights such a communication with the families. Our visitors are also being subjected to inhumane and degrading treatments that they are being asked to take their underwear off during the body search” writes Mehmet Nur Çelebi, who is an inmate at the said prison, in his letter.
Mehmet Çelebi also wrote in his letter that 87 prisoners who chanted slogans and rejected meals in order to protest the approach of the prison administration are now under investigation and their right to talk to their families on the phone is suspended for a month.
Mr. Çelebi further states that when the tensions out of the prison get hard the treatment they receive inside the prison is getting harder. He also states that the conditions in the prison are hardened after the new governor was assigned. “These treatments turned into a psychological war, psychological torture” says Mr. Çelebi who also blames the prison administration for the tensions.
The letter from Mr. Çelebi follows:
“The soldiers are arbitrarily asking the visitors to take their underwear off under cover of body search. The visitors are also subjected non-visit punishment and just greeting the visitors of a cell mate can be a ground for this ban. The clothes brought by the visitors are being rejected on account of the “allowance exceed” prescribed by the prison administration. The soldiers are raiding the cells in a frequency to tire us out. During these cell searches we hear the superiors ordering the soldier to destroy our stuff. They also seize our books which have already been approved by the administration. Although there is no legal basis we are not allowed to swap books with the other inmates by post. Letters written in Kurdish are given us either too late or not at all. Our sportive activities are being cancelled with no reason.”
Mr. Çelebi also states that for everything they are asked to apply in written but they never get a reply for their petitions. He further states that they cannot find a interlocutor to whom report their complains.
Mehmet Çelebi also wrote in his letter that 87 prisoners who chanted slogans and rejected meals in order to protest the approach of the prison administration are now under investigation and their right to talk to their families on the phone is suspended for a month.
Mr. Çelebi further states that when the tensions out of the prison get hard the treatment they receive inside the prison is getting harder. He also states that the conditions in the prison are hardened after the new governor was assigned. “These treatments turned into a psychological war, psychological torture” says Mr. Çelebi who also blames the prison administration for the tensions.
The letter from Mr. Çelebi follows:
“The soldiers are arbitrarily asking the visitors to take their underwear off under cover of body search. The visitors are also subjected non-visit punishment and just greeting the visitors of a cell mate can be a ground for this ban. The clothes brought by the visitors are being rejected on account of the “allowance exceed” prescribed by the prison administration. The soldiers are raiding the cells in a frequency to tire us out. During these cell searches we hear the superiors ordering the soldier to destroy our stuff. They also seize our books which have already been approved by the administration. Although there is no legal basis we are not allowed to swap books with the other inmates by post. Letters written in Kurdish are given us either too late or not at all. Our sportive activities are being cancelled with no reason.”
Mr. Çelebi also states that for everything they are asked to apply in written but they never get a reply for their petitions. He further states that they cannot find a interlocutor to whom report their complains.
