NEWS CENTER - The hunger strike launched against the aggravated isolation on PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and the increasing rights violations in prisons has entered its 193rd day with the 39th group.

 

The indefinite-alternating hunger strike launched by Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) prisoners on November 27, 2020, demanding the end of the aggravated isolation on PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and an end to the increasing violations of rights in prisons, continues on its 193rd day with the 39th group.

 

Announcing the May report on violations in prisons, the Civil Society Association in the Penal System (CİSST) drew attention to the increasing violations with the coronavirus epidemic. CİSST Advocacy Coordinator Berivan Korkut stated that they have received many applications from prisons regarding torture and ill-treatment, frequent and crowded ward searches, insufficient cleaning materials, unhealthy food, and arbitrary disciplinary punishments.