Application to CPT for the isolation in İmralı

2020-02-25 10:35:38


	İSTANBUL - Asrın Law Office applied to CPT regarding the continued isolation in İmralı. The lawyers also called for the announcement of the results of CPT's latest visit to İmralı in 2019. 

	The lawyers of Asrın Law Office applied to European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) on behalf of their clients PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan, Ömer Hayri Konar, Hamili Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş to be granted their visitation rights with their families and lawyers and to be granted their rights to communication. In the application sent with the headline "Regarding the developments between 30 September 2019 and 31 December 2019; our findings and demands regarding the visitation application of the families, lawyers and guardians" the violations of rights experienced listed one by one. 

	 

	It was noted that the applications made by lawyers to meet with their clients from 27 July 2011 until 2 May 2019 were rejected, and the applications made since 7 August 2019 were de facto blocked. In the last three months of 2019, the application was made 27 times with 4 lawyers each time and it was stated that all of the applications with 108 lawyers were left unanswered. The application stated: "“During this period, although each applicant had the right to meet freely for a total of 469 hours during working hours, not one attorney -client meeting could be done.  In the last three months of 2019, family members were unable to make a visit although they applied 65 times. ALthough legally the family is allowed to visit 8 times including on October 29, 2019 and in new years eve, not one single visitation could be made."