ÖHD Riha Branch Prisons Coordinator Sabri Güngen talked about the rights violations in Urfa Type T Prison, where ill prisoners are not released despite the “cannot stay in prison” report, and noted that the basis of all violations is the İmralı isolation.
Nazım Babaoğlu's brother Cemal Babaoğlu, who stated that they greeted the “International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance” with a struggle, said that their demands for the events that remain in the dark to be clarified and for the state to internalize the law were not met.
Bekir Yollu, an ill prisoner of 30 years in Kırşehir Prison, was prevented from being released for the second time on the grounds that he was not in “good behavior” despite completing his sentence.
Reading passages from PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan's defenses, women gave the message “Despite the isolation, Abdullah Öcalan's ideas are in every sphere of life."
Riha 78's Initiative member Mehmet Ural was detained after attending a funeral.
Calling for a World Peace Day event in Ankara, Labor and Democracy Forces stated that the government's policies threatening the future of the peoples of the Middle East have become a global problem and said: “Peace is in the resistance of oppressed peoples.”
DEM Party MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu visited Emine Şenyaşar, who continues her struggle for justice, and asked Numan Kurtulmuş, the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, “Stand by your mother. Why are you silent?” he asked.
The body of journalist Gulistan Tara was taken on the road to Êlih after the ceremony held in Sulaymaniyah.
Lawyers from the Asrın Law Office have made a new application for a meeting with their client Abdullah Öcalan, whom they have not heard from for 42 months.
Seriously ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Çam, who underwent angioplasty after a heart attack, was found to have a brain tumor and cysts in his kidneys, is not being given his medication. His daughter Şimal Çam stated that her father is being dragged to death.
Özgür İpek, one of the workers who were attacked by police, warden and a racist group in Balıkesir, said: “It was an organized and planned attack. The only reason was that we were Kurdish.”
Zeki Binbir from ÖHD stated that the application of 1,330 lawyers to the Ministry of Justice requesting a meeting with Abdullah Öcalan has still not been responded to.
The indictment against journalist Zeynep Kuray on charges of “making illegal organization propaganda” based on her online media posts was accepted by the court. Kuray's news posts and journalistic activities were criminalized in the indictment.
31 prisoners in Şakran Women's Closed Prison were sentenced to a one-month communication and visitation ban. Hamit Bilen, the brother of Güler Bilen, one of the prisoners against whom a disciplinary investigation was launched, stated that they are worried that the upcoming release of his sister, who has been imprisoned for 32 years, will be prevented.
Calling for the World Peace Day rally to be held in Wan, politicians said: “In order to talk about peace, the isolation of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan must end and he must be given his physical freedom.”