>Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 22:35:50 -0400 >From: "S.C. 7 !" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Dear human right supporters, > >This is a call from a country where security forces demonstrate against >human rights just after extra-juridical executions, where mothers of >disappeared people are beaten and detained every Saturday for their peaceful >actions, where a great range of people faced torture at least once... I call >out from Turkey. > >Sufferings have not come to an end in prisons for a long time. It is my >chief concern since I am a political prisonerķs parent. I am one of those >painful mothers and fathers waiting in front of prisons day and night. We do >so, because we are deeply concerned about the lives of our children. It was >last year, I remember, 26th of September, when 10 prisoners were murdered in >Ankara Ulucanlar Prison directly by security forces. I did run across the >hospitals just to know if my son/daughter is alive or dead. > >Nowadays our concerns and sufferings have been doubled. The government is >running the construction of F-type prisons, particularly for political >prisoners. F-type is a special regime of individual and/or small group >isolation. Several times we tried go Ankara in order to discuss the subject >and tell our concerns with to the authorities. In each case we were >repressed brutally. > >Dear human right supporters, > >In F-type prisons, prisoners shall stay alone or three persons in isolation >cells. These new prisons have been constructed on the Article 16 of >Anti-Terror Law which says: ģ The sentences of those convicted under the >provisions of this law will be served in special penal institutions built on >a system of rooms constructed for one three people. (...) Convicted >prisoners will not be permitted contact and communication with other >convicted prisoners.ī > >Well, as far as I know, whatever he or she had done, every person should >serve his or her sentence under equal conditions. This is a basic >requirement of civil law based on human rights. In just the same way ģ >Standart Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisonersī have been determined >in detail by United Nations: ģ The following rules shall be applied >impartially. There shall be no discrimination on the ground of race, colour, >sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social >origin, property, birth or other status.ī However, the mentioned article of >Anti-Terror Law is obviously discriminative. > >What makes we most frightened is the phrase that says ģ the convicted >prisoners will not be permitted contact or communication with other >convicted prisoners.ī The spokesman of Ministry of Justice claim F-type >prisons are not composed of ģcellsī , but of ģroomsī. In order to support >their claim, they further say that sport rooms, libraries and ateliers have >also been constructed in prisons. However, the Anti-Terror Laws says ģno >contact, no communicationī. How shall prisoners sport, read and work without >any contact and relation? The point is also mentioned by the European >Committee for the Prevention of Torture in the 23.02.1999 dated report >presented to Turkish Government: ģIt is imperative for prisoners in Turkey >to the accompanied measures to ensure that prisoners spend a reasonable part >of the day engaged in purposeful activities outside their living unit. >Indeed, the effects of the current almost total absence of any organised >programme of activities for prisoners would be felt even more keenly in >activities for prisoners, the introduction of smaller living units will >almost certainly cause more problems than it solvesī. > >Dear human right supporters, > >I see in no way persuasive what the authorities have been telling. I, >frankly to say, do not trust them. Hundreds of prisoners died in those >prisons under their control, since ill-treatment, hunger strikes, medical >problems, torture and repression. I believe that my son/daughter will suffer >of isolation in F-type prisons. Isolation is certainly an extra-sentence >during the serving of sentence. As human beings our nature is in need of >other human beings, to be heard and seen by them. > >Consequently, I tell all these to inform you. That, you can tell also other >people. Since we could not have any respond to our appeals from the >authorities, now we need your support and solidarity. We ask you to try to >make pressure on Turkish authorities through the ways you prefer. Perhaps, >these attempts may remind them the universal principles and international >documents of human rights. > > > > >Sincerely > > > > > Mother of a revolutionary prisoner > > > >p.s. : please send this e-mail to the democratic, socialist, communist, >anti-fashist, greenist people, parties, associations, founds for helping us. >Thanks from now. > >Take care of you > >Venceremos >We are right, we will fight, we will win > > > >_________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > >Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at >http://profiles.msn.com. > > _______________________________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi _______________________________________________________ Kominform list for general information. 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