Violations continue in Afyon Prison  

2023-03-13 13:17:46


	 

	ANKARA - Prisoner Yusuf Erkek, who ended his hunger strike against rights violations in Afyon Prison due to earthquakes, drew attention to the statement of the 2nd director of the prison, "We know how to approach people like people, and terrorists like terrorists", and said, "We will insist on our demands."

	 

	Habil Emen, Yusuf Birkan, Yusuf Erkek, Mehmet Emin Dal, Siraç Keskin and Cumali, who ended the hunger strike they started on January 3 against the isolation system in Afyonkarahisar No. 1 Type T Closed Prison, after the Maraş earthquakes, as well as the imposition of raids and standing counts on the wards It was stated that the rights violations against Yıldırım continued.

	 

	PRESSURE IN PRISONS

	 

	In the letter he wrote, Yusuf Erkek stated that they were faced with systematic violations in Afyon Prison, where he had been for 3 years, Erkek said: There is no cultural, social or sporting activities organized in the prison. It is constantly raided by the guards. It's like they're coming to plunder and provoke. Our ward turns into a battlefield under the name of partial search. The torture we were subjected to at the time of the raid is recorded on the camera in the ward. We were subjected to disciplinary investigation for shouting the slogan 'Human dignity will defeat torture'. Our demands are humanitarian demands. The second director of the prison said to another prisoner, "We know how to approach people like people, and terrorists like terrorists." Despite everything, we are in favor of a solution. We will persist in our demands."

	 

	DEMANDS OF PRISONERS

	 

	At the end of his letter, the man listed the demands of the prisoners: “Abolishing the census in a military order, which is not found in any prison, not conducting mouth searches on the way to and from the hospital, applying the legally regulated visiting hours to one and a half hours, releasing our friends who have not been released after their sentence ends.”