Turkey: Treatment of detainees ( and what about the presumption of innocence?)
Excerpt from the news published today in the daily cumhuriyet as follows:
1. Lawyer-client meetings are restricted to be once a week and recorded. And in some penitentiaries, the meetings are made in the presence of two officials.
2. Arrested persons are not permitted to have family visitors until the end of the state of emergence.
3. Mailing and phone call are highly restricted.
4.Newspapers are prohibited.
5. Patient inmates’ rights to medical treatment are being violated due to bureaucratic obstacles. They do not access to health care once needed.
6. The lawyers who insisted on a meeting with their clients first waited to see them until 7:00pm then soldiers came and dragged the lawyers on the ground and at the end thrown them over a field.
8. The inmates are not provided with enough space and beds. They are not able to sleep.
9. Forensic medicine can give a report that 80 years old can stay in prison despite his serious illnesses.
