Prisoners who ended their hunger strike in the Kurkculer Type F Closed Prison are being refused treatment. Prisoner Inan Akin said, “We are not receiving treatment, they don’t give us our medicine, we couldn’t drink the soup, it was like colored water."
Prisoners who prevailed against the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan and ended their hunger strike in the Adana Kurkculer Type F Closed Prison are being refused treatment. Asya Akin, sister of Inan Akin who was on a hunger strike for 141 days and is being refused treatment now, spoke about the rights violations she was made aware of after a visit they held on May 29.
“WE WERE REFUSED TREATMENT, OUR MEDICINE WAS NOT GIVEN”
Inan Akin relayed the following to his family during the visit:
“We were 10 prisoners on hunger strike. We ended the hunger strike on May 26. They didn’t refer us to the hospital that day, we were referred the next day in a prison shuttle. At the hospital we gave blood and urine for tests and we were taken backto the prison. There was no examination or treatment, and no medicine was given. I got sick on the way back to prison. There is a huge discrepancy between the Chamber of Medicine’s guide for what food to provide to persons coming out of a hunger strike, and the food that the prison gives us. We couldn’t even drink the soup, it was like colored water. We tried to feed ourselves with milk, cookies and yoghurt from the cantina. Our tests still haven’t come out.”
Asya Akin said politicians and all of society should defend the prisoners and monitor their treatment process.
