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The low score reflects the government's concentration of power, strict laws criminalizing online expression, and extra-legal efforts to stifle dissent and independent journalism, according to the report.

"My top priority will be prisons. I will work to prevent deaths in prisons from being normalized as suicides," said Asya Gezer, who lost her sister in suspicious circumstances.

The group published a statement supporting the Peoples' Democratic Party and identifying the blocking of the Treasury aid as a severe intervention in the electoral process.