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• Guards torture prisoner in Sincan jail for moving his bunk bed 

  Hakan Tunç, a prisoner in Sincan Prison, was tortured by the guards because he moved his bunk bed.
• There is no age for a Kurdish person in this system, you can be sent to jail at 7 or at 70 

  Drawing attention to the health of his 80-year-old mother and his 79-year-old father, who are in prison, Medeni Özer said: “There is no age for a Kurdish person in the system, you can be sent to jail at 7 or at 70."
• Political prisoners held in same cell wing with ISIS jihadists in Adana 

  Political prisoners held in the high-security Adana-Kürkçüler prison are being held in the same cell wing as ISIS jihadists. Relatives are worried, especially in view of the prisoners' hunger strike against the isolation on Imrali.
• IHD: Deaths in prison are preventable. Failure to prevent them is a crime against humanity 

  Nuray Çevirmen from the IHD underlined that deaths in prisons are preventable and that failure to prevent them is a crime against humanity.
• KCDK-E: Sweden wants to sacrifice Kurds to Turkey 

  In the run-up to Erdogan's visit to Stockholm, Kurdish activist Zinar Bozkurt was taken into custody in Sweden. If extradited to Turkey, he faces torture and a long prison sentence.
• Seriously ill prisoner Bazo Yılmaz dies in Urfa T-type prison 

  Seriously ill prisoner Bazo Yılmaz died in Urfa T-type prison. The 67-year-old was seriously ill with COPD due to the prison conditions and was not released despite the many applications.
• Tekirdağ City Hospital Health Board says hunger striker Gökhan Yıldırım should return in prison 

  Tekirdağ City Hospital Health Board said that prisoner Gökhan Yıldırım, who has been on death fast for 237 days demanding a "fair trial" should be taken to prison.
• HRW on Turkey’s threatened military incursion: Civilians at risk in northern Syria 

  Key concerns include unlawful attacks, worsening humanitarian conditions, ISIS resurgence.
• SDF: Seven Turkish soldiers neutralized in our legitimate response operations 

  Seven Turkish soldiers were killed, and at least three others were injured as a result of the three successful operations by the SDF, which vowed to continue the retaliation operations against the repeated aggressions of the Turkish occupying army.
• Hunger strikers in Urfa prison say they will continue their protest until demands are met 

  The hunger strike carried out by the prisoners in Urfa No. 1 T Type Closed Prison continues. The families said: "They are determined until they get results," while the prisoners called for sensitivity to all democratic people.
• Justice Vigil by relatives of ill prisoners in Izmir and Denizli leaves 100 days behind  

  The Justice Vigil organised by the relatives of ill prisoners in İzmir and Denizli has been carried out for 100 days.
• PKK and PAJK prisoners call for mass resistance 

  The committee of PKK and PAJK prisoners calls for mass protest and resistance in view of the accumulation of deaths, torture and abuses in prisons.
• Urfa Bar Association attends justice vigil of Şenyaşar family 

  Urfa Bar Association’s Head Mehmet Velat İzol and members of the association’s board of directors attended Şenyaşar family's justice vigil.
• Ten more prisoners join hunger strike in Urfa No. 1 T Type Closed Prison  

  Ten more prisoners joined the hunger strike launched in Urfa No. 1 T Type Closed Prison on 8 August against the violations of their rights.
• Mother stages sit-in for son on hunger strike in prison 

  Songül İlker has been staging a sit-in in front of the Denizli T Type Closed Prison for three days, demanding treatment for her son who is sick and on the 15th day of a hunger strike.
• Political prisoner dies ten days before release 

  Another seriously ill prisoner has died in Turkey. According to the prison management, Ibrahim Yildirim suffered a heart attack in the high-security prison Elazığ. He would have been released from prison in ten days.
• Writer Ayşe Düzkan: Aysel Tuğluk and other ill prisoners are actually sentenced to death  

  Writer Ayşe Düzkan said that Aysel Tuğluk and the ill prisoners are actually sentenced to death as they are punished outside the law.
• Mother of prisoner Polat holds sit-in in front of Denizli Prison demanding for her son to be treated 

  The mother of Ekim Polat, a seriously ill prisoner held in Denizli T Type Closed Prison, has been holding a sit-in in front of the prison for two days demanding for her son to be treated.
• Constitutional Court rejects request to release Kurdish politician Aysel Tuğluk 

  The Constitutional Court rejected the request to release Kurdish politician Aysel Tuğluk, who suffers from dementia, and to impose an injunction.
• ÖHD publishes report on the vigil of the Şenyaşar family 

  The Association of Lawyers for Freedom (ÖHD) in Urfa has presented a report on the 522-day vigil of the Şenyaşar family and called on the Parliamentary Human Rights Commission to do its job.
• 76 percent disabled and seriously ill prisoner to remain in jail 

  Hülya Ayık, mother of 76 percent disabled and seriously ill imprisoned journalist Devrim Ayık, said that her son, whose right to treatment was denied, sees his illness progressing, and added: "Are they waiting for Devrim's body to come out of prison?"
• Alaattin Tuğluk demands her sister to be released immediately 

  Kurdish politician Aysel Tuğluk's brother, Alaattin Tuğluk, demanded her sister to be released immediately and end the double standards.
• Dilan Taşdemir: Law is suspended in prison 

  HDP Ağrı Deputy Dirayet Dilan Taşdemir said that every prison has become an autonomous structure and added that "the law has been completely abolished and torture has become systematic."
• Ten prisoners on hunger strike in Urfa protest violations of their rights 

  Ten prisoners, who went on hunger strike 3 days ago against the increasing torture practices in Urfa No. 1 T Type Prison, said that they will continue their actions until their demands are met.
• Asrin Law Office calls for an end to the injustice and lawlessness on Imrali 

  Exactly three years ago, Abdullah Öcalan's legal team was able to visit his client for the last time on the Turkish prison island of Imrali. For 17 months there has been no sign of life from Öcalan and his three fellow prisoners.