content tagged with Mehmet Emin Özkan

Call to the Ministry of Justice for the seriously ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan

Call to the Ministry of Justice for the seriously ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan

Bar associations and human rights organizations have called for the immediate release of an 84-year-old seriously ill prisoner .

‘We speak to people’s conscience: Özkan must be released before he dies’

‘We speak to people’s conscience: Özkan must be released before he dies’

84-year-old seriously ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan could not go to the video conference room for his hearing yesterday as he was unable to walk. The court has ruled that he shall remain in prison.

Seriously ill prisoner Özkan tests positive for COVID-19

Seriously ill prisoner Özkan tests positive for COVID-19

Held in prison for 25 years despite being found not guilty by the prosecutor’s office as well, 83-year-old seriously ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan and his son Ahmet Özkan, who stays in the same ward with him, have caught coronavirus.

8 December 2021

83-year-old ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan not released

'HE CANNOT UNDERSTAND, HEAR YOU'

83-year-old ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan not released

At his hearing today, the warden accompanying Özkan said, “He cannot understand or hear you” in response to a question of the presiding judge. Mehmet Emin Özkan has still not been released on the grounds of another ongoing trial.

16 September 2021

Social media campaign demanding the release of ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan

Social media campaign demanding the release of ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan

A social media campaign has been launched for 83-year-old seriously ill prisoner Özkan. Social media users demand his release under the hashtag #MehmetEminÖzkanıSerbestBırakın. He will appear before the judge on September 15.

1 September 2021

Forensic Medicine Institution says 83-year-old ill prisoner can stay behind bars

Forensic Medicine Institution says 83-year-old ill prisoner can stay behind bars

The Forensic Medicine Institution has issued a report on seriously ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan (83), who is unable to meet his personal needs on his own, and concluded that he can stay in prison.

‘Ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan’s right to life being violated’

‘Ill prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan’s right to life being violated’

Law and rights organizations: “The imprisonment of Özkan despite his age and illnesses, the conditions in which he is taken to hospital and the attempts to treat him handcuffed to bed is a violation of the prohibition of torture.”

'Tomorrow may be too late for Mehmet Emin Özkan'

'Tomorrow may be too late for Mehmet Emin Özkan'

Another application has been made for the deferment of the execution of the prison sentence of 83-year-old Mehmet Emin Özkan, whose court records show that he has been in prison for 25 years for a crime he did not commit.

3 June 2021 Ayça Söylemez

‘Lift the Prison Sentence of 85-Year-Old Ill Inmate, Let Him Spend His Final Days at Home’

CALL TO PRESIDENT ERDOĞAN

‘Lift the Prison Sentence of 85-Year-Old Ill Inmate, Let Him Spend His Final Days at Home’

Currently held in Diyarbakır Prison, 85-year-old ill inmate Özkan cannot meet his personal needs on his own. Speaking to bianet, his attorney calls on Erdoğan to remove his prison sentence so that Özkan can spend the last days of his life at his home.

3 February 2020 Evrim Kepenek