solitary confinement – during period of remand !! – as a means of inflicting additional hardship and imposing extra punishment

[an email to the blog editor]

The human rights situation in Turkey has deteriorrated due to the purges and crackdown on extended sections of the society including journalist,academics judges prosecutors other civil servants as well as ordinary people on the street since the attempted coup in July 2016.

One devastating problem relates to the treatment that the detainees are receiving in prison. The penitentiary institutions began to use solitary confinement as a means of inflicting additional hardship and imposing extra punishment on many detainees arbitrarily. I have learned through my informal contacts with the families that many members of the judiciary are in fact being exposed to similar solitary confinement prectşces. My son N.N. has also been under solitary confinement at XX penitentiary since 20 July 2016 for no reason at all in clear violation of law and international human rights standards.