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• Şenyaşar family continues their Vigil for Justice on day 279 

  The Şenyaşar family continues their struggle to achieve justice for their relatives who were murdered in Urfa.
• Keskin: The prison administration is responsible for Garibe's death! 

  IHD Co-chair Eren Keskin defined Garibe Gezer, who died suspiciously at Kandıra Prison, as a woman who was aware of her rights and did not bow down to authority and added: "Suicide or murder, the prison administration is responsible for Garibe's death."
• Justice vigil by prisoners' families reaches day 26 

  Justice vigil by prisoners' families reaches day 26
• ‘Five years after visit by UN Special Rapporteur, torture remains widespread in Turkey’ 

  “Resetting the anti-torture agenda is a matter of vital importance for a much-needed broader rule of law programme for the country. The current situation in Turkey demands urgent steps to prevent torture and ill-treatment and address impunity."
• Women take coffin of Garibe Gezer from morgue 

  The body of Garibe Gezer, who died suspiciously in prison, was taken from the morgue by the women with the slogan "martyr namirin" (martyrs never die).
• Gezer's preliminary autopsy report says cause of death could not be determined 

  Garibe Gezer died suspiciously in Kandıra Prison. In the preliminary autopsy report it was written that the cause of death could not be determined.
• Victim of torture and rape in prison dies 

  Kurdish political prisoner Garibe Gezer has died in High Security Prison in Kandıra. The prison management claimed that she committed suicide.
• Justice Vigil for ill prisoners launched in Van after Amed 

  While the Justice Vigil for ill prisoners continues in Amed, families of prisoners started another Justice Vigil in the Van Bar Association.
• Strip-searching continues in Türkoğlu L Type Closed Prison 

  Strip-searching continues in Türkoğlu L Type Closed Prison. Prisoners there are also denied the right to treatment.
• Prisoners in Van see their sentences arbitrarily extended 

  Several political prisoners in the Van are being held beyond their regular prison term on the pretext of disciplinary punishment. Van's F-Type Prison was extended for the second time by six months.
• HDP says Turkey must comply with ECtHR ruling on Öcalan and other prisoners 

  HDP Group Deputy Chair Meral Danış Beştaş said that the recent ruling of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe on Abdullah Öcalan is important for Turkey's political history and stressed that Turkey must comply with the ECtHR ruling.
• 83-year-old prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan admitted to intensive care 

  Despite his serious illness, 83-year-old prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan, has not been released. On Tuesday, he was moved to intensive care after contracting coronavirus. His condition is said to be critical.
• ‘As long as justice for Paris killings is denied, France remains guilty,’ say Kurds in France 

  The Kurdish Women’s Movement in France and the Democratic Kurdish Council in France called for participation in demonstrations and marches to be held on the 9th anniversary of the killings in Paris of three Kurdish women politicians.
• Şenyaşar family continues its Vigil for Justice on 272nd day 

  The Şenyaşar family continues its Vigil for Justice and said that "if there is a government that protects the oppressor, it should be destroyed".
• Saturday Mothers demand justice for Ibrahim Demir and Agit Akipa 

  On 12 December 1991, Ibrahim Demir and Agit Akipa were arrested in İdil, Şırnak for demanding an end to the military siege in their village. One day later, relatives found their bodies covered with torture marks.
• IHD: “It is our right to lead a free and peaceful life” 

  Turkish specialist sergeant Musa Orhan, who raped Ipek Er and drove her to suicide, was sentenced to prison but plea for his arrest was denied.
• 'Isolation is an international scenario like the conspiracy' 

  HDP Muş Deputy Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit stated that the isolation of Kurdish leader Öcalan is a part of an international scenario similar to the conspiracy, and that the indifference of the Council of Europe and the CPT is related to this.
• IHD Amed Branch demand justice for prisoners with disabilities  

  IHD Amed Branch demanded justice for prisoners with disabilities on 3 December, International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
• DBP and HDP pay visit to prisoners’ families on vigil for justice 

  A delegation consisting of executives and members of the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) visited the Justice Vigil carried out by relatives of prisoners and said that both families and prisoners are subjected to torture.
• Another sentence against seriously ill prisoner Muhlise Karagüzel 

  Another sentence was handed down to seriously ill prisoner Muhlise Karagüzel.
• Writer Herdem Merwanî joins Vigil for Justice carried out by relatives of ill prisoners 

  Writer Herdem Merwanî, daughter of Abdülhalim Kırtay said that "mothers have given hope and morale to everyone."
• HDP, DBP, DTK and TJA call for increased struggle against the isolation of Öcalan 

  Democratic Regions Party (DBP) co-chair Saliha Aydeniz called for increased struggle against the isolation of Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• ‘International community complicit in Turkey’s crime of using chemical weapons’ 

  Members of the Kongreya Star organization in Afrin Region said that although Turkish chemical attacks constitute a crime, human rights organizations do not speak out or make any effort to stop the attacks, and thus become complicit in the crime.
• Emine Şenyaşar summoned to give a statement to the police for the 9th time 

  Emine Şenyaşar, who is struggling for justice for her husband and two sons who were murdered in Urfa, was summoned by police to give a statement for the 9th time.
• Peace in Kurdistan Campaign writes open letter to UK Home Secretary on Kurds and refugee crisis 

  Peace in Kurdistan Campaign wrote an open letter to UK Home Secretary Priti Patel on the Kurds and the refugee crisis.