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The court has accepted the indictment lodged against Cemal Metin A. for killing university student Pınar Gültekin. He is now facing aggravated life imprisonment on charge of “killing with monstrous feeling.”

Given an aggravated life sentence, Akman is forced to live in a five-step-long cell for 23 hours a day. For one hour, she is locked up in an open place so that she can get some air. Akman is on a death fast for 161 days, demanding an improvement of conditions.

The ECtHR has again convicted Turkey in an appeal made against the legal practice stipulating that the convicts who have been sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment shall serve time in prison without a possibility of being released.