Tag: Solitary Confinement

Human rights advocates and families are urging the Turkish authorities to release seriously ill and severely disabled prisoners, highlighting the ...

The Turkey rapporteur for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe Stefan Schennach has declared solitary confinement practices in ...

Turkish high-security prisons are designed to maintain prisoners in absolute isolation, creating severe health and psychological impacts on inmates, according ...

Turkey's Justice Minister Yılmaz Tunç stated on Thursday that future meetings with Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan would be considered based ...

The Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) has presented the details of the latest report on Turkey by the United ...

Sarah Glynn   A year and a half ago, a delegation of three women visited the Council of Europe to ...

Zeki Bayhan, a political prisoner who has been incarcerated for 27 years in Turkey, has penned a powerful and deeply ...

As protests continue against the death sentence imposed by Iran on Kurdish women's socio-political activist Pakhshan Azizi, the Centre for ...

Over 1,500 lawyers from more than 30 countries have applied to Turkey’s Justice Ministry to allow them to visit the ...

Meral Danış Beştaş, a Member of Parliament from the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party representing Erzurum (Erzirom), visited ...