Archive for December, 2006
A one man hunger strike by Turkish lawyer Behiç Aşçı – launched on 5 April to mark World Lawyers Day – entered its 300th consecutive day on 19 November. The government continued to ignore his demand that they address the issue of the isolation of prisoners in the country’s controversial maximum security F-type prisons.Aşçı began [...]
We, the İstanbul Indymedia volunteers, want to get your attention for the ongoing isolation torture in Turkey. A lawyer, Behiç Aşçı, protesting the silence of the state as well as NGOs and public is going to die for he is on a hunger strike. All of us who have been silent regarding the case will bear the burden of this action if Aşçı turns out to be just another in more than 120 persons who died/was killed in protest of F-type prisons since 1996 in Turkey. On 13th of December, it was 250th day of Aşçı’s strike, and we do not want this beautiful man to pass away. istanbul.indymedia
As lawyer Behic Asci reaches 243rd day in hunger strike for the for the abolition of isolation practices in F-type facilities, writers, activists and NGOs come together to make a call to the government to end denial. 122 people died since 2000 in strike.
Lawyer Behic Asci, who pursues a hunger strike since April 5 for the abolition of isolation practices in F-type imprisonment facilities, criticizes news that he’s linked to a far-leftist group as “provocative”. BİA News Center
In Turkey, since 19th-22nd December 2000, particularly in F-type (high-security) prisons and other, similar prisons, detainees and convicts have been placed in single cell or small group isolation cells (3 inmates together), in other words, an execution model that isolates prisoners is being applied.
Moreover whatever the opinion of the Turkish State on the political beliefs of Behic Asci and the defendants that he undertook to protect, the responsibility of the Turkish Government remains in totality, in order to ensure their terms on the unbiased exercise of vocation of advocate of defence.
Samir Kuntar, the longest held Lebanese Prisoner in Israeli Jails.
What did he do? What was his crimes? KUNTAR WAS THE MAIN REASON HEZBOLLAH KIDANPPED THE TWO ISRAELI SOLDIERS IN JULY 12, 2006 which led to the sequence of events which resulted in the Israel Lebanon War.
A Song about isolation and “F Type” from Turkish Rap Group Barikat
www.sosyalistforum.org , 3 minutes
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