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Submitting 6 petitions to the Ministry of Justice, the Civil Society in the Penal System (CİSST) has shared the complaints of 23 inmates, who have written that they are not allowed to receive daily Yeni Yaşam and their letters are arbitrarily seized.

In response to an inmate’s demand to listen to radio in Kocaeli Prison, the court has concluded that “he is legally entitled to have a radio in prison, but cannot use this right upon the instruction of Ministry of Justice”.