Human Rights Watch: Turkeys Bold Reforms Fail Imprisoned Legislators. Death Penalty, Language Restrictions Abolished; Kurdish Parliamentarians Still Jailed

Six-year-old Siyar, who was hit on the head with a mortar shell, was discharged from the hospital. His two sisters were killed in the same incident. Grandfather will open a lawsuit against Yuksekova Battalion Commandership.

Banned, Censored, Harassed and Jailed. 37 Writers from 19 Countries Receive Hellman/Hammett Grants. Photojournalist and human rights activist Dayanan and Professor Baskaya got the awards from Turkey.

However, the delegation found that practically all the prisoners held under the Law to Fight Terrorism were still refusing to take up the offer of communal activities.

Response: It is not planned to lift the requirement in question. Otherwise the determination to promote activities outside the living units in F-type prisons would be adversely affected.

Preliminary observations made on 27 March 2002, by Ms Silvia Casale on behalf of the CPTs delegation.

The Human Rights Association criticized a report, dated 24 April 2002, on the F-type prisons, by the European Committee for Preventing Torture: Considering the basic international and universal standards, the committee is quite backwards.

The European Human Rights Court held unanimously there had been a violation of Article 3 to Protocol No. 1 (right to free elections) of the European Convention on Human Rights. the Court awarded the applicants 50,000 euros (EUR) each for damage.

Torture and ill-treatment, high security prisons, rape in custody, impunity, two HADEP politicians disappeared, increased pressure on human rights defenders, prisoners of conscience, death penalty, political killings.

Between 26 March and 20 April 2002, International PEN members world-wide staged a campaign aimed at highlighting the huge number of trials under way against writers and journalists in Turkey.

The TIHV volunteers have called for immediate support for the 441 people who are being treated for illnesses linked to hunger strikes and death fasts. The average cost for one survivor is a thousand dollars.two years, for o

Lawyer Ozbek is concerned that the torture case is facing the risk of superannuating of the trial. During the last hearing of 10 police officers, four defense lawyers withdrew from the case. Nine had stepped down before.

One of the main purposes of the visit was to examine the implementation in practice of recent legal reforms concerning custody by law enforcement agencies.

An IHD (The Human Rights Organisation of Turkey ) fact finding mission to Southeast Turkey is reported to have faced arassment during their visit to the region. In an urgent appeal yesterday the IHD calls for intervention for the release of detained local