HUMAN RIGHTS

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• "No to the death penalty" campaign to last one more week 

  The YRJ announced that the "No to the death penalty" campaign launched to protest the death sentences given to women activists in prisons by the Iranian regime has been extended for another 7 days.
• Release of sick prisoner postponed for the 5th time 

  28-year-old Kurdish prisoner Naif Işçi, who has been behind bars for 14 years, is denied release on the grounds that he did not express remorse.
• ÖHD exposes torture in Kocaeli No. 2 F Type Closed Prison 

  Lawyers from ÖHD drew attention to the torture of prisoners in Kocaeli No. 2 F Type Closed Prison.
• Strip-searching and cage torture in Tekirdağ No. 2 F Type Prison 

  Serdar Bozkurt spoke on the phone with his brother Abdülkadir Bozkurt, who is in Tekirdağ No. 2 F Type Prison, and said: "My brother cried and said that he was strip-searched, put in a cell and had faeces thrown at him."
• Detained sister of slain protester on hunger strike in Iran 

  Solmaz Hassanzadeh, who was detained by security forces on 30 July, went on a hunger strike on 6 August in protest at her continued solitary confinement.
• Mother denounces harsh isolation conditions of her son in prison 

  Medine Esmer, the mother of Imran Esmer, who is being held in solitary confinement at Suluca No. 1 High Security Prison, applied to the Human Rights Association concerned about her son’s condition.
• HRW calls on Iraq to exhume mass grave sites to ensure justice 

  “Exhuming all of Iraq’s mass graves will require a serious and sustained commitment from Iraqi authorities, and it’s one that must absolutely be made,” Sarah Sanbar said. “Healing the wounds of the past won’t be possible without it.”
• Keskin: Ill and elderly Kurdish women kept in prison with temperatures of 40 degrees 

  The co-chair of the IHD, Eren Keskin, spoke about the situation in the women's prison in Batman, saying that "although the women are all elderly and have health problems, they are held in cells at 40 degrees without enough water."
• 75-year-old bedridden man suffers heart attack while being taken into custody 

  75-year-old bedridden Süleyman Sabri Mavi, who is living in Yüksekova, suffered a heart attack while being detained after the Court of Cassation approved his 8-year, 9-month prison sentence.
• DEM Party issues urgent call to stand by Yazidi community  

  The DEM Party Central Executive Board said that the Yazidis "are facing a grave threat of massacre organized by the KDP" and called on the international community to take urgent action.
• Prisoner sees his release posponed for 3 months after spending 30 years in jail 

  The release of Mehmet Kınat, who has been in jail for 30 years, was postponed for 3 months claiming that he was not “behaving well.”
• Prisoner sees his release posponed six times 

  Sinan Sütpak, who has been held captive in Turkish state prisons for 31 years, should have been freed, but his release has been prevented six times on arbitrary grounds.
• Guards in Evin jail attack female prisoners 

  The family of Nobel Peace Prize winner Nargis Mohammadi, who is in jail in Iran, said that guards in Evin Prison attacked and beat female prisoners.
• UN expresses concern over alarmingly high number of executions in Iran 

  At least 345 people have been executed in Iran this year, among them 15 women.
• HRW and İFÖD: Turkey’s arbitrary decision to block access to Instagram is a violation of rights 

  “Blocking access to Instagram clearly violates freedom of expression and access to information but also breaches the constitutional obligation to guarantee an effective remedy through a court of law,” said HRW and İFÖD.
• Young people in prison for dancing halay forced to listen to racist songs 

  After his visit to Batman M Type Closed Prison, IHD Amed Branch President Ercan Yılmaz said that young people arrested for dancing the halay were forced to listen to racist songs and that the mothers in captivity were experiencing health problems.
• Four Kurds executed, one environmental activist sentenced to prison in Iran 

  On Wednesday, when at least 29 people were hanged in Iran, 4 Kurds were also executed and a Kurdish environmental activist was sentenced to prison.
• Prisoner has phone call with his mother cut off because she spoke Kurdish 

  Medine Kaymaz, the mother of Bayram Kaymaz, who is a prisoner in Tekirdağ F Type Closed Prison, said that her phone call with her son was cut off when she spoke Kurdish.
• Four people sent to prison for dancing halay in Osmaniye 

  Four people who were taken into custody for dancing the halay accompanied by Kurdish music at a wedding were sent to prison on charges of “making propaganda for a terrorist organization.”
• Another Kurdish activist executed in Iran for participating in 'Jin Jiyan Azadi' protests 

  Kurdish activist Reza Resai, who was arrested for participating in the 'Jin Jiyan Azadi' uprising in Iran, was executed. The number of those executed in connection with these protests rose to 10.
• Freedom for Pakhshan Group launches petition calling for her release 

  The Freedom For Pakhshan Group strongly condemned the death sentence of Pakhshan Azizi and called for her immediate release, inviting everyone to sign the petition they have promoted.
• At least 300 executions have taken place in Iranian prisons in the first seven months of 2024 

  Iran Human Rights warns about the intensification of executions in Iran and calls for the special attention of the international community and the public to executions in Iranian prisons.
• Syrian worker lost his life as a result of an accident at work 

  Syrian Hassan Elali was working in the straw bale production business in Nusaybin. He lost his life as a result of an electric shock.
• DEM Party co-chairs visit Çiğdem Mater and Mine Özerden in prison 

  DEM Party co-chairs Tülay Hatimoğulları and Tuncer Bakırhan visited Çiğdem Mater and Mine Özerden, two of the prisoners of the 'Gezi Trial'.
• New details revealed in the case of Kurdish activist Pakshan Azizi sentenced to death in Iran 

  The lawyers of Kurdish political prisoner Pakshan Azizi, who was sentenced to death in Iran, stated that their client had spent seven years in Iraq and Syria as a social worker helping war refugees and had not been involved in any armed activities.