Torture in Antalya Prison moved to agenda of parliament

  • 15:10 12 July 2021
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ANKARA - HDP Şırnak MP Nuran İmir brought the torture of 20 prisoners exiled from Antalya L-Type Prison to S-Type Closed Prison on the parliament's agenda.
 
Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Şırnak MP Nuran İmir brought to the parliament that 20 prisoners who were forcibly transferred from Antalya L Type Closed Prison to the newly built S Type Closed Prison on July 8 were tortured by the guardians by rear-handcuffing on the grounds that they refused to strip search. Nuran submitted a parliamentary question to the Speaker’s Office to be answered by Minister of Justice Abdülhamit Gül.
 
‘A delegation should be sent’
 
In the parliamentary question, it was stated that prisons are the leading places where antidemocratic practices in Turkey were most affected, and it was noted that inhumane treatment was made in prisons. In the motion, which was also included in the phone conversations the prisoners made with their families, the following information was shared: ‘’We are being treated inhumanely here, other attacks can be made against us at any moment, at least 10 people are attacking each of us and our arms and legs are broken. None of us are reported to be battered. We are not sent to the hospital. We may die as a result of their attacking us, deadly attacks are being made.’’
 
In the parliamentary question, it was stated that a delegation should be sent to the prison immediately by the Ministry of Justice and an investigation should be carried out on the persons concerned.