Families of inmates in Istanbul’s Silivri Prison, notorious for its high number of political prisoners, complained yesterday on Twitter that inmates’ drinking water was...
Amid an economic downturn inmates in Turkish prisons have complained that new austerity measures introduced by the government in June have resulted in a...
A recent report jointly prepared by two Turkish human rights organizations has revealed that inmates were subjected to strip-searches, insults and battery in prisons...
Selahattin Demirtaş, the imprisoned former chair of the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), described the current situation in Turkey's prisons as a "human tragedy"...
Thirty-nine prisoners with COVID-19 are being held in
the same ward at Turkey’s notorious Silivri Prison, which houses some 23,000
inmates, according to the Gazete Duvar...
Forty-four inmates in İstanbul’s Silivri Prison have tested
positive for COVID-19, the chief public prosecutor’s office announced on
Friday, the Gazete Duvar news website reported.
Two of...
The
Diyarbakır Bar Association has announced that scores of inmates in a high
security prison in eastern Elazığ province were physically battered by guards,
the Artı Gerçek...
Turkey’s Constitutional Court on Tuesday said
preventing inmates’ access to certain newspapers and magazines is a “violation
of freedom of expression,” the Artı Gerçek news website...
Journalist Cem Küçük, a staunch supporter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, suggested during a live TV program on Monday that Turkish intelligence should...
