Giving 20 Days Cell Punishment to Abdullah Öcalan

Giving 20 days cell punishment to Abdullah Öcalan, who is under perpetual “isolation” and making his conditions, which are extremely limited more difficult are against execution law principles, international conventions that order arrested and sentenced persons’ right-status and human rights.

Basic rules on protection of arrested and sentenced persons are determined in United Nations General Assembly’s decision, dated 9th December 1988, related to “The Whole Principles for Protection of Arrested or Sentenced Persons for Any Reason”. According to this decision arrested and sentenced persons have rights for example;

        ·       Treatment in a respectful manner that is required for human dignity (article 1)

        ·       No discrimination (article 5)

        ·       Meeting with lawyers “without observing from anybody” (article 18)

        ·       Meeting especially with family members and communication with outside world (article 19)

        ·       Staying in a reasonable prison regarding with its residence province (article 20)

       ·       Informed about the actions that cause discipline punishment, listened (oral defence) before being punished (article 30)

       ·       Demand for investigation by first hand of prison’s conditions and treatments that he/she is subjected (article 33).

One person prison that is different practice from other arrested and sentenced persons, 20 days cell punishment, which is against article 5 bans discrimination, article 19 states meeting with his/her lawyers-family members, article 20 on staying in a reasonable prison and especially against entirely article 1, depending on arguments, which are indefinite, open to point of view (comment), difficult to examine result in making isolation conditions more difficult.

It is apparently that “cell punishment” does not have any meaning other, in one person prison practice, except for causing new tensions and pressures.

Discipline punishment should be drawn immediately and “isolation” practice should be completely destructed.

HUMAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION

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