Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Group deputy chair İdris Baluken tabled a parliamentary question in relation with the blacklisting of relatives of prisoners in Erzurum H Type prison.

Referring to the repression and right violations faced by prisoners since the jailbreak in Bingöl M Type prison, Baluken said that all political prisoners in the jail were transferred to other prisons after the jailbreak and have been suffering from further repression and right violations ever since.

Also reminding of the situation of political prisoners who went on hunger strike against repression in Van prison, Baluken underlined that after all these, it came out that the administration of Erzurum H Type prison and police have blacklisted the people who have visited their relatives in prison.

Baluken asked Minister of Justice Sadullah Ergin to answer the following questions;

- What is the reson for the obtainment of personal information from the people visiting their relatives in  Erzurum H Type prison? In line with which legislations do officials ask for this information?

- What is the legal cause of blacklisting the visitors of prisoners? Has the Ministry of Justice launched any investigation into this incident, and if it has, what is the course of the investigation and whom does it concern?

- Is the treatment of prisoners' visitors as “dangerous” and “nondescript” people a category of the blacklisting of the state? In which other cases does the state blacklist its citizens?

- How many inmates in Erzurum H Type prison have been denied visit and what is reason and legal basis of this denial?

- Why was Ozan Çelik, one of the inmates transferred from Bingöl to Erzurum prison,  inflicted a disciplinary punishment and put in one person cell although he was not among the fugitives in Bingöl prison? On which incident and legislation was his sentence grounded?