28 August 2010
More than 300 chronically ill inmates died in prison in Turkey since 2002, human rights organisations say.
About 50 chronically ill prisoners pleas are ignored by the Islamist AKP government, Freedom Platform for Chronically Ill Prisoners said in a press statement.
“AKP is continuing isolation torture in prisons. They don't treat the ill prisoners. This is a silent mass murder” Servet Gocmen, represantative of the platorm says.
“They are kept in prison and watch them die. AKP is hypocritical about its human rights policy”
Gocmen and relatives of prisoners gathered today in Istanbul in protest of Turkish governments attitude against prisoners; especially political prisoners.
Gocmen critised current treatment procedures for the prisoners which sometimes results no adequate treatment.
He said AKP is responsible for death of more than 300 prisoners. All of their applications for release are rejected by Turkish Justice Ministry.
According to Amnesty International's reports allegations of ill-treatment on transfer to prison persisted and, in a number of cases, prisoners' access to appropriate medical treatment was denied in Turkey.
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