Freedom Watch in Front of 2 Prisons for 3 Academics

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Freedom Watches continue in front of the prison where he three academics arrested for signing “We will not be a party to this crime” are being kept.

The protest held in front of Bakırköy Prison where Assist. Prof. Dr. Esra Mungan is being kept is on its fourth day. Boğaziçi University students and academics, Academics for Peace in addition to Psychologists Association for Social Solidarity sustain the watch.

Education and Science Workers’ Union (EĞİTİM-SEN) has also started to keep a watch with the banner reading “May the academics be released” in front of the Silivri Prison where Assist. Prof. Dr. Muzaffer Kaya and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kıvanç Ersoy are imprisoned.  

The watch is being kept between 12 a.m. and 3 p.m.

They are in one-person cell

Esra Mungan taken to a one-person cell in Bakırköy Prison on March 18, has been delivered to a smaller cell.

Meriç Eyüpoğlu, a lawyer of Mungan has noted in his message on Twitter that the academic has been taken to a smaller and filthier place without ventilation on the grounds that the sink had been leaking.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Muzaffer Kaya and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Kıvanç Ersoy was transferred to Silivri Prison on March 23 from Metris Prison where they were taken after arrest on March 15.

What had happened?

Warrant has been issued for four academics who held contact meeting on March 10 as to incidents taking place since they released the declaration entitled “We will not be a party to this crime”.

The academics Esra Mungan, Kıvanç Ersoy, Muzaffer Kaya and Meral Camcı stating in their declaration that actions are being taken for investigations without determining on which bases the charges are leaned upon, had said they were insistent on their peace demand.

The academics whose houses were visited by police officers on March 14 at around 9:30 a.m. couldn’t be seized as they were absent. The academics except Meral Camcı who is abroad went to İstanbul Security Directorate on Vatan street with their lawyers. (BK/TK)