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Four women journalists join hunger strike in Diyarbakır Prison

Four women journalists join hunger strike in Diyarbakır Prison

With the hunger strike, prisoners protest camera surveillance of the wards and strip search of prisoners.

13 September 2022

Families of prisoners in front of Diyarbakır Prison

JUSTICE WATCH IS ON THE 204TH DAY

Families of prisoners in front of Diyarbakır Prison

Stating that they have been on Justice Watch for seven months, families of prisoners have said "If they had any conscience and mercy, they would release our children."

Leyla Güven transferred to Elazığ Prison

Leyla Güven transferred to Elazığ Prison

Detained and arrested in Turkey’s Kurdish-majority southeastern province of Diyarbakır, Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-Chair and dismissed HDP MP Güven has been transferred from Diyarbakır Prison to Elazığ Prison in eastern Turkey.

23 December 2020

‘Urgent action’ campaign calling for investigation into torture in prison

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

‘Urgent action’ campaign calling for investigation into torture in prison

Addressing an open letter to Turkey’s Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gül, Amnesty International has requested a “new prompt, independent and impartial investigation into the allegations of torture and ill-treatment” of a prisoner in Diyarbakır.

21 December 2020

Ill prisoner Semire Direkçi: Are you waiting for me to die?

Ill prisoner Semire Direkçi: Are you waiting for me to die?

As doctors don't perform a surgery "because of the pandemic," prisoner Semire Direkçi is living with her intestines out of her body.

18 September 2020 Evrim Kepenek

Torturers Will be Called to Account

DIYARBAKIR PRISON

Torturers Will be Called to Account

The Facts Research and Justice Commission decided to take the torturers of the Diyarbakır prison from the time around the 1980 military coup to court. Kurdish politician Miroğlu who was detained in the prison for several years, is both a victim and a witness.

28 September 2010 Erol Önderoğlu

Diyarbakır Prison Should Become a Museum

SIGNATURE CAMPAIGN

Diyarbakır Prison Should Become a Museum

Intellectuals protest against Minister Eker's plan of turning the Diyarbakır prison into a school. They started a campaign to convert the prison into a museum for human rights instead to remember the torture experienced by many prisoners.

28 September 2009 Bawer Çakır

"Turn Diyarbakır Prison into a Museum!"

"Turn Diyarbakır Prison into a Museum!"

Minister Eker has mentioned plans of knocking down Diyarbakır prison and building a school there, but former prisoner Kankılıç calls for a memorial to the suffering there.

25 August 2009 Bawer Çakır