HUMAN RIGHTS

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• Journalist in prison writes about violation of rights in Adana jail 

  Fatih Özgür Aydın, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Public Workers' Front is suffering from chronic crohn's disease. He is imprisoned in Adana F Type jail and wrote about the violations of rights to the Dicle Fırat Journalists Association.
• Jailed co-chair of MEBYA-DER sentenced to eight years in prison 

  Yüksel Almas, jailed co-chair of the MEBYA-DER solidarity association for people who lost loved ones in the Kurdish liberation struggle, has been sentenced to eight years in prison.
• Guards attack prisoners on hunger strike for speaking Kurdish 

  Guards attacked the Kurdish-speaking prisoners in Ereğli High Security Prison where there has been a hunger strike.
• Iranian activist Ronaghi taken to hospital 

  Hussein Ronaghi, an Iranian human rights activist who was arrested with both legs broken and has been on hunger strike for 50 days, has been taken to hospital.
• Prisoners in Erzurum jails go on hunger strike against torture 

  Prisoners in Dumlu High Security Prison No. 1 and Ramazan Kaya, who is in Erzurum H Type Prison, went on hunger strike to protest torture.
• Daughter of ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan demands her father's release 

  Selma Özkan, the daughter of ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan, who was unjustly arrested and has been in prison for nearly 30 years, demanded an end to this unlawfulness.
• Prisoner who set his body on fire not taken to hospital 

  Prisoner Yakup Brukanli, who set his body on fire to protest the severe isolation conditions and violations of rights in Konya Ereğli High Security Prison, is still not taken to the hospital.
• Hunger strike in Ereğli High Security Prison continues 

  Ill prisoners, who have been on hunger strike for 38 days to protest the isolation conditions and rights violations in Ereğli High Security Prison, are being held in single cells.
• International legal organizations call for an OPCW investigation into Turkish use of chemicals 

  International legal organizations call on Turkey to end its crackdown on civil society organizations, journalists and human rights defenders who demand an investigation into the use of chemical weapons.
• Prisoner who set his body on fire to protest isolation only treated in infirmary 

  Prisoner Yakup Brukanli, who set his body on fire to protest the severe isolation conditions and violations of rights in Konya Ereğli High Security Prison, was not taken to the hospital, but was treated in the infirmary in reverse handcuffs.
• Reactions to demands for execution of demonstrators in Iran grow 

  227 parliamentarians in Iran issued a joint statement to ask the judiciary to implement the death sentence for demonstrators. The Iran's Human Rights Organization stated that those who demanded the execution were complicit in this crime.
• UN experts call for release for Fincancı and all others jailed for politically motivated purposes 

  UN experts urge Turkey to immediately and unconditionally release Fincancı and other civil society actors detained for politically motivated purposes, ensure their access to fundamental safeguards, and protect their mental and physical integrity.
• ECtHR rules that the arrest of 13 HDP deputies was 'politically motivated' 

  Similar to the decision about former HDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaş, the court concluded that the arrests were politically motivated, which violated article 18 of the ECHR.
• ELDH Secretary General and European lawyers speak out against the isolation of Öcalan 

  ELDH Secretary General Thomas Schmidt said that European countries did nothing to lift the isolation imposed on Öcalan, while the peoples of Europe were aware of the issue and the paradigm of Abdullah Öcalan was known to all world’s peoples.
• HRW calls on Turkey to stop aggravating the acute water crisis in Syria 

  Parties to the conflict in Syria aggravate cholera epidemic, with Turkish authorities disrupting water supply and Syrian government obstructing aid, says the HRW.
• Political prisoners in Patnos not taken to hospital and prison infirmary for one year 

  Political prisoners in Patnos L Type Prison have not been taken to the hospital and prison infirmary for nearly a year.
• Turkish Medical Association calls for the immediate release of Şebnem Korur Fincancı 

  Despite the ongoing smear campaign, the Turkish Medical Association is aggressively backing its arrested president Şebnem Korur Fincancı. The internationally renowned medical doctor has once again spoken out from prison.
• Study shows Kurds in Turkey think human rights situation worse than 90s 

  The results of a new study by Tahir Elçi Human Rights Foundation and Rawest show that Kurds living in different parts of Turkey believe that mostly Kurds, women, children and the poor are subjected to violations of human rights.
• Seriously ill 79-year-old Hadi Özer still in prison 

  Seriously ill 79-year-old Hadi Özer was arrested on 9 May in Van. His son, Medeni Özer, said that he has been in prison for more than 6 months despite his chronic and serious illnesses.
• ÖHD lawyers say prisoner who set his body on fire to protest isolation not taken to hospital 

  ÖHD lawyers visited Yakup Brukanlı, who set his body on fire to protest the severe isolation in Konya prison. They said that although Brukanlı had second-degree burns, he was treated in the prison infirmary instead of being taken to the hospital.
• Iranian lawyers urge all colleagues to “defend our people killed in the streets” 

  As the protests in East Kurdistan and Iran continue on the 48th day, Iranian lawyers urged their colleagues to “defend our people killed in the streets”.
• Prisoner sets himself on fire in solitary cell in Konya 

  Political prisoner Yakup Brukanli, a Kurd from Iran, protested his isolation by setting himself on fire in a maximum-security prison in Konya. He is in a critical condition.
• Şenyaşar family continues Vigil for Justice on day 604 

  Emine Şenyaşar and her son Ferit have been holding a ‘Justice Vigil’ for 604 days demanding justice for three family members killed by AKP people in 2018.
• Hengaw says 17 Kurdish young people killed on 40th day of Jina Amini's murder 

  The human rights organization Hengaw, said that 17 Kurdish young people were directly targeted and murdered by the police on the 40th day of Jina Amini.
• Turkish chemical attacks against guerrillas protested at Justice Vigil for ill prisoners in Izmir 

  The Turkish state's chemical attacks against the guerrillas were protested at the Justice Vigil carried out by the relatives of ill prisoners.