GOKHAN ACIKKOLU DECEASED IN DETENTION AUGUST 5

“He stays with 32 inmates/arrested people in a jail cell which is built for 9 persons. They don’t have enough space and beds. This must be a kind of torture. He had told his lawyer, that two judges were beaten by the police during detention. A pregnant judge was divested/of deprived from food for a long time in detention. There are several stories of this kind.”

“Cars, houses and bank accounts are confiscated. Which means that we are still owners but cannot use them. Terribly as I said before we are paid half of the salary but they now freeze our accounts so we also cannot withdraw any money from our accounts. So you properties and money in the bank is just useless. We have to wait until the end of the trial. The only way to stand on foot is to get help from relatives.”

The 5th of August 2016 a teacher died died in detention (he was in detention waiting pretrial for 14 days!!). Allegedly he was a member of FETO. He was a diabetic patient. He was not allowed to see his family or to have any contact( phone call etc) during the 14-day detention period. Much more terrible, the Istanbul municipality does not allow family to bury him in a cemetery. The state is not sending a priest for his funeral ceremony. They just say take the dead body!!!!. No English source for the news. The link http://www.birgun.net/haber-detay/gozaltinda-olume-sorusturma-123135.html