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Jailed journalist under investigation for sending letter detailing unsanitary prison conditions: report

Harun Çümen, a Turkish journalist who had sent a letter from prison about the unsanitary conditions facing inmates in prison, saying they are forced...

Jailed journalist says in letter inmates forced to live in cells invaded by rats

A Turkish journalist who has been in jail since March 2018 on terrorism charges has written in a letter from prison about the “inhumanly”...

Being a Kurdish journalist in Turkey: Exile or prison

The Mesopotamia news agency’s (MA) office in the eastern city of Van has experienced two police raids over the past two months and had...

Turkish judges board says review of Kavala’s arrest records ‘general and routine’ practice

The Board of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK), Turkey’s top judicial body, has said in a statement that its recent request to review records related...

Toll of neglect in Turkish prisons: Ex-colonel buried by family after 4 years in jail with congestive heart failure

The family of Barış Avıalan, a former colonel who had been in jail on coup charges since July 18, 2016 in the wake of...

Prosecution demands jail terms for journalists over reporting on Turkish black op in Libya

A prosecutor has demanded sentences ranging from eight to 19 years for journalists over their reports on a Turkish intelligence officer killed in Libya,...

49-year-old journalist diagnosed with cancer in prison dies 2 months after release

Mevlüt Öztaş, 49, a Turkish journalist who was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in prison, died on Wednesday after he was released for health reasons...

Kurdish politician Demirtaş’s life at risk behind bars due to coronavirus, says his wife

Başak Demirtaş, the wife of jailed Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtaş, said in a podcast that her husband’s life is at serious risk due to the COVID-19...

Rights groups report doctors in İzmir prison tested positive for COVID-19

The Turkish Human Rights Foundation (TİHV) and the country’s Human Rights Association (İHD) have raised an alarm as two doctors in Şakran Prison in the western port...

Journalists call for release of jailed colleagues in wake of COVID-19 outbreak

A group of journalists in Turkey who came together under the name of “Haberin Var Mı İnsiyatifi,” (Do you know about the initiative?) have called on...

AKP unveils bill to reduce prison population amid pandemic, excludes inmates charged with ‘terrorism’

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its ally the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) on Tuesday revealed a jointly drafted bill allowing the partial release of...

Report reveals inmates in Turkish prisons not protected against coronavirus

A report drafted by the Jurists for Freedom Association (ÖHD) has revealed that inmates in Turkey’s overcrowded prisons are at high risk of contracting COVID-19, caused...

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