ANKARA - The Green Left Party submitted a bill to add a clause to Article 99 of the Execution Law, in case of the collection and execution of more than one sentence, separating into an open prison and determining the execution regime separately for each crime.

 

Greens and Left Future Party (Green Left Party) Amed Deputy and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Law Commission Co-spokesperson Serhat Eren demanded that a clause be added to Article 99 of the Execution Law with the bill he submitted to the Parliament.

 

Reminding that in the proposal in question, each prison sentence finalized in Article 99 of the Execution Law will protect its existence separately, Eren said: "But if there is more than one final sentence, the execution judge will be asked to collect the sentences in terms of conditional release. It was applied in matters such as probation and the determination of the execution regime, resulting in detrimental consequences for the convicts."

 

In Eren's proposal, it was stated that if a person is sentenced separately for both a political and a judicial crime, the time for leaving the open prison is determined according to the political crime and he continues to stay in a high security prison, although the execution of the sentence for a political crime ends and the execution of a judicial crime begins.

 

SEPARATE ASSESSMENT FOR EACH CRIME

 

In the bill, there is a need to amend the law stating that "In the case of the collection and execution of more than one sentence, separating into open prisons and determining the execution regime, a separate evaluation will be made for each crime in order to eliminate the illegalities in practice, although the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court is to the contrary." 

 

‘DISCRIMINATION IS ESSENTIAL IN POLITICAL AND JUDICIAL CRIMES’

 

In the bill, it was stated that it took a long time in the process of going to and from the Supreme Court by way of reversing the file for the benefit of the law, that the convicts continued to be deprived of their freedom in this process and that the establishment of justice was delayed. In addition, the workload of the judiciary is increasing. On the other hand, because the types of crimes are different, the prison institution should be changed, but the convict is accommodated according to the execution regime of the most serious crime. For example, while he can stay in the district prison, he continues to be housed in a high security prison and the conditions of execution are more severe. This distinction is particularly evident in terms of political and judicial crimes.

 

The justification for the bill included the following statements: “Due to the implementation of Article 99 of the Law on the Execution of Penalties and Security Measures in a way that prevents being transferred to an open prison, benefiting from probation, and staying in a prison with more flexible execution conditions, it is aimed to eliminate the unlawful violations in practice. ”