A temporary release to ease overcrowding in Turkish prisons during the coronavirus pandemic that was announced in April 2020, affecting some 90,000 prisoners, will...
The number of inmates with university degrees in Turkey increased more than twofold between 2016 and 2020, reaching 20,333, according to the data released...
Turkish
Justice Minister Abdülhamit Gül announced on Tuesday that 120 prisoners from
four penal institutions have been diagnosed with COVID-19, caused by the novel
coronavirus, the T24...
Three
Turkish prisoners have died of the coronavirus, Turkey’s justice minister said on
Monday as he announced the first cases of convicts diagnosed with the disease,
AFP...
Member
of the Turkish parliament and human rights defender Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu on
Tuesday claimed that a 70-year-old inmate in Sincan Prison in Ankara has tested
positive...
Ömer
Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a member of parliament and one of Turkey’s most prominent
human rights defenders, has submitted legislation for the postponement of
prison sentences due to...
A survey conducted by the Rights and Justice Platform’s State of Emergency Research and Reporting Committee shows that 16.7 percent of people who have been detained...
