No news have been recieved from PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalanü Ömer Hayri Konar, Hamili Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş who have been held under aggravated isolation in İmralı High Security Type F Prison for the last 23 years. All applications made by the families of the prisoners and their lawyers are left unanswered.

 

Lawyers applied to Bursa Execution Judge on November 22 for an 'urgent meeting' with their clients because their applications were left unanswered. The Judge told that Öcalan was given a disciplinary punishment banning his family visits for 3 months and a one banning him to be visited by his lawyers for 6 months. But the lawyers were not informed the reason of the disciplinary punishment. Even though the time for the ban on family visits have expired, the applications of the family are still not answered.

 

APPLICATION TO CONSTITUTION COURT AND HSK

 

The legal initiative of the lawyers in Asrın Law Office for their client PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan and Konar, Yıldırım and Aktaş continues.The lawyers applied to the Constitutional Court on December 24, 2021 and said: "We request a cautionary decision in accordance with Article 73 of the Rules of Procedure, in order to ensure that the damage caused by the violation of Article 17 of the Constitution (prohibition of torture) is brought to an end, so that he can meet with his family and lawyers."

 

On 24 December, the lawyers also filed a complaint with the Council of Judges and Prosecutors (HSK) about the prosecutors and judges in charge, on the grounds that they "obstructed the exercise of their rights unlawfully by abuse of office".

 

APPLICATION TO CPT

 

The lawyers finally applied to the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) and drew attention to the fact that there has been no news from their clients news since March 25. Defining what happened in Imrali as "torture and ill-treatment", the lawyers wanted these practices to end.

 

The lawyers made the following demands from the CPT in their application to end the torture and ill-treatment:

 

“* Your committee's urgent visit to Imrali Island,

 

* Immediate permission and continuity of attorney visits,

 

* Carrying out family and guardian visits and ensuring their continuity, and ending their prevention with unlawful disciplinary punishments,

 

* Fulfillment of routine telephone rights in parallel with the establishment of visiting rights,

 

* Ensuring that all obstacles in front of communication tools such as letters and faxes are removed,

 

* Ensuring that the actual or illegal bans on newspapers, magazines and books are ended,

 

* It has been urgently requested that coercive measures and procedures be implemented and taken to eliminate the conditions of torture, inhumane and ill-treatment.”

 

 

MA/ Ferhat Çelik