Tension remains high in Ankara's Sincan F Type Prison No 1 where some 60 prisoners are being held in one person cells since 6 November for protesting the security cameras placed in the prison garden.

According to the information provided by Murat Yılmaz, Chairperson of Contemporary Lawyers' Association's Ankara Branch, prisoners broke the security cameras in the garden after obtaining no result from the applications they filed to the prison administration and the Ministry of Justice against the security cameras which they described as an isolation and an intervention in private life.

The cameras which were placed in the prison garden despite all the reactions and objections were broken by inmates and sent to the prison administration. Inmates also sent a letter to the administration and warned that they would break any cameras to be placed there.

Following the protest, prison officers and soldiers raided all wards on 6 November, assaulted some 60 prisoners who were later put in one person cells, also denied permission to take their things with them. They are being held there for the last nine days.

Yılmaz stated that the installment of cameras in the prison garden had no judicial or legitimate justifications, and was aimed at repressing prisoners.

Yılmaz underlined that tension in the prison will not end unless the prison administration gives up the idea of placing cameras in the garden, adding that inmates were determined not to allow the installment of security cameras.