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'Child abusers can't be pardoned'

STATEMENT BY 297 WOMEN'S ORGANIZATIONS

'Child abusers can't be pardoned'

Women's organizations will protest the government's reported plans for pardoning child abusers if they marry the child they abused.

9 July 2020 Evrim Kepenek

‘While There are 1,334 Ill Prisoners, Why Only the Convict of Sivas Massacre?’

SOCIAL MEMORY PLATFORM

‘While There are 1,334 Ill Prisoners, Why Only the Convict of Sivas Massacre?’

Social Memory Platform has released a written statement about the pardon granted to the convict of Sivas Massacre by President Erdoğan. “No matter who forgives murderers, we will not forgive them”, the Platform has said.

3 February 2020

Erdoğan Pardons 3 Prisoners, There are Still 1,333 Ill Inmates Behind Bars

Erdoğan Pardons 3 Prisoners, There are Still 1,333 Ill Inmates Behind Bars

President Erdoğan has pardoned three ill inmates sentenced to prison on a series of charges including “willful killing, willful injury and insult of public officers, use of unregistered firearms, qualified robbery and deprivation of liberty”.

7 November 2019

Diseased Convicts Hope for Pardon - Before Death

Diseased Convicts Hope for Pardon - Before Death

Convict Serap Şimşek suffered a stroke and fell ill with cancer while serving her life sentence. She has been lying at the infirmary with her hand cuffed for 8 months now. Convict Gülay Çetin passed away 1 month before the Forensic Medicine sent the report to release her immediately.

23 March 2012 Ayça Söylemez

Güler Zere Finally Released

Güler Zere Finally Released

President Gül released 4 convicts from prison because of "chronic illness", one of them Güler Zere, fatally ill with cancer, who was waiting for her release for months. Zere was released from Balcalı Hospital in Adana and transferred to a private hospital. Her family will probably take her to Istanbul.

9 November 2009 Tolga Korkut