Political prisoner Ayten Beçet ended her life protesting the isolation

2019-03-23 12:35:03


	According to reports, political prisoner Ayten Beçet, a political prisoner in Gebze Women’s Closed Prison, carried out a sacrifial action protesting the  isolation imposed on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan.

	While Beçet lost her life as a result of her action, her body has been taken out of the prison this morning.

	 

	Lawyers who rushed to the prison on hearing the news, were told by the prison administration that Beçet hanged herself and ended her life. It was not immediately clear where her body has been taken.

	 

	Since the launch of hunger strike actions demanding the termination of isolation against Abdullah Öcalan, three people have lost their lives, two of them being prisoners.

	 

	On March 17, political prisoner Zülküf Gezen ended his life to protest the isolation, in Tekirdağ Prison where he was being kept as a prisoner. Gezen was laid to rest in the Yeniköy Cemetery in Amed (Diyarbakır).

	 

	Ugur Sakar, who had set himself on fire in Krefeld, Germany on 20 February to protest the isolation, lost his life on 22 March in the hospital he was being treated in.