IHD To Minister: End Isolation in Prisons

October 30, 2006 in F Type, IHD, Isolation, Society & Intellectuals

Human Rights Association sends letter to Ministery calling on Ankara to end isolation treatment at F-type prisons and enter a dialogue to prevent new deaths. “Or else you’ll be responsible for every death, for every breach of human rights in prisons”. BIA News Center

UN Officials Visit Lawyer on Death Strike

October 16, 2006 in Behic Asci, F Type, Isolation, United Nations (UN)

Members of the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention visit Turkish lawyer Behic Asci on the 194th consecutive day of his hunger strike to protest isolation conditions in “maximum security” prisons. BIA Haber Merkezi

The International Symposium’s Final Declaration on Carceral Isolation

October 15, 2006 in Behic Asci, F Type, Gulcan Goruroglu, Hunger Strike, Isolation, Solidarity, Torture

We, the endorsers of this declaration, who took part in the International Symposium on ‘Isolation and the Struggle against Isolation’ hosted by TAYAD (the Solidarity Association of Prisoners’ Families) in Istanbul, from 14th-15th October 2006, salute the resistance that was created in the F-Type prisons of Turkey, under conditions of isolation, and keep in honour the 122 heroes who fell as martyrs during this great resistance, which has entered its 7th year.

Turkey ‘Social Forum’ Convenes

October 2, 2006 in F Type, Isolation, TSF

Between September 30 and October 1, Turkey’s opposition groups held a series of meetings where every current issue from the Anti-Capitalist Manifest to the country�s energy problems, from alternative globalization to the future of the anti-war movement, union movements, education, the Kurdish problem and even the controversial isolation-style maximum security F-type prisons were discussed. Ayca [...]