Diyarbakır Bar Association's Prisons' Commission released a report on the violations of rights in Muş E Type Prison and Van F Type Prison following a series of visits in both prisons.

Remarking that 258 political prisoners in Diyarbakır and surrounding cities have recently been transferred  to other prisons across the country, the report stated that "71 prisoners have been transferred from Muş to Tekirdağ prison, 38 from Mardin to Çorlu prison, 72 from Siirt E Type Prison to different jails, 16 from Batman to Tekirdağ prison, 61 from Van to Muş, Kastamonu, Zile and Giresun prisons and 64 from Diyarbakır D Type Prison to Edirne F Type Prison".
 
The report called attention to the recently increasing repression and isolation of inmates by the authorities of Muş E Type Prison who reportedly subjected prisoners to arbitrary searches, seizing their belongings and insulting them with physical violence, molestation and threats on 28 October 2013. Seven woman prisoners -the report said- suffered heavy injuries such as head trauma and were hospitalized after the assault.

Referring to right violations in the prison where the Prisons' Commission interviewed four prisoners, three women and one man, the report said the inmates in Muş E Type Prison have suffered from ill treatment that has remarkably increased since the jailbreak in Bingöl prison.

Referring to health problems of prisoners in the jail, the report said many ill prisoners were denied treatment and faced difficulties in response to their demands to be hospitalized.

The report noted that the recent transfer of political prisoners to other jails has also had a negative influence on other prisoners.

The report underlined that prisoners also voiced complaints over the disciplinary punishments imposed on them by prison authorities, and arbitrary treatments such as the seizure of their belongings, including a radio they listened to, denial of permission to meet their lawyers and to attend hearings, and restrictions concerning the number of books they are allowed to have.

The report by Diyarbakır Bar Association's Prisons' Commission remarked that the prison administration should urgently remove all bureaucratic obstacles to the treatment of ill prisoners, enable assaulted prisoners to take a report on their injuries, improve the conditions of prisoners, prevent arbitrary treatments against inmates and provide the legal support prisoners need.
Referring to the violations of rights in Van E Type Closed Prison where the Commission interviewed four male prisoners, the report gave detailed information about the hunger strike started on 13 October by 12 political prisoners who were transferred from Bingöl to Van prison after the jailbreak.

The report said these 12 prisoners have been subjected to isolation under the cover of "specific security policies" since their transfer, and are also being denied permission to talk with other prisoners in the jail.

Prisoners are not provided with regular heating and warm water either, and are being subjected to detailed searches before entering their wards after the phone conversations they have, the report said and noted that prisoners started the hunger strike after receiving no answer from the prison administration in response to their demand for the improvement of their conditions. The report said 35 other political prisoners in the jail joined the protest and voiced the same demand in solidarity with the fugitives.

According to the report, these 12 prisoners were denied food when they were first transferred to the prison, and faced an unserious attitude and psychological torture by the prison administration after voicing their complaints and demands. The petitions they filed to the administration were not put in process nor answered.

Inmates are also suffering from insults and ill treatment of prison officers who are threatening them saying that "Here is not Bingöl". The twelve fugitive prisoners, who are being held in the C Block together with ordinary prisoners, are facing particular unlawful practices and hostility from prison officers who are also subjecting them to continued arbitrary treatments and searches.

Inmates also complained that they could very hardly send or receive letters with the prison administration arbitrarily seizing their letters in which they talk about the conditions they are facing in prison.

The report said prisoners were also subjected to disciplinary punishments and received no answer to their objections against these punishments. All political prisoners who were involved in the hunger strike were inflicted twenty days cell punishment, while others, those who didn't join the strike, were also given disciplinary punishments.

Inmates are not being allowed to see their lawyers either, which forces them to attend hearings by means of the Segbis system which they object to, it noted.
The report said the administration of Van E Type Closed Prison should take some urgent steps to provide the 12 fugitive prisoners with their basic daily needs such as heating, warm water, newspapers and the right to talk with other prisoners, appoint a delegation of health for the treatment of the psychological trauma caused by the insulting treatment of prison administration and officers, enable prisoners to meet their lawyers and provide them with the necessary legal support.