01-02.01.2012 Daily Human Rights Report
(01/001) Torture and ill-treatment in detention…
B.Y. who had been taken to Bağlar Security Directorate to give testimony on the fight he participated was beaten in Diyarbakır Province on 1 January 2011. B.Y.’s jaw, teeth and nasal bone were fractured due to the tortured he was subjected to (ANF, 2 January).
(01/002) Coercion in prisons…
The administration of Bitlis E Tipi Type Closed Prison sentenced the hunger strikers who protest the prison conditions of Abdullah Öcalan to ban of communication for 6 months including table visits reported on 1 January 2012 (DİHA, 1 January).
(01/003) Coercion in prisons…
Zeynep Yayla was sentenced to ban of visit for 1 month on grounds that she saluted two other convicts during her visit to Sezgin Çelik, a prisoner in Sincan (Ankara) F Tipi Type Closed Prison No. 1 reported on 2 January 2012 (Radikal, 2 January).
(01/004) Confiscated calendar in Manisa Province…
Manisa Penal Court of Peace No. 3 adjudicated to confiscate the calendar of the Peace and Democracy Party’s (BDPPeace and Democracy Party ) Province Branch for 2012 on grounds that there are sentences in Kurdish on charges of opposing the Law of Political Parties reported on 2 January 2012 (alinteri.org, 2 January).
(01/005) Massacre in Şırnak Province…
Nine juveniles were detained in the intervention of the police teams to the protest against the murder of 35 villagers in the air attack of the Turkish Air Force in Ortasu (Roboski) Village of Uludere District of Şırnak Province on 28 December 2011, in Tarsus District of Mersin Province on 1 January 2012.
Nine juveniles were detained in the intervention of the police teams to the protests in Adana Province (ANF, 2 January).
(01/006) Detentions and arrests…
Six people who had been detained in Doğubayazıt District of Ağrı Province on 31 December 2011 were arrested on charges of “making propaganda of an illegal organisation” and “throwing stones to law-enforcement officers” on 1 January 2011 (yuksekovahaber.com, 2 January).
