The lawyers of Mr. Abdullah Öcalan have stated that their client was subjected to torture and ill-treatment and death threat.
Torture and ill-treatment is an offence against humanity and the one ignores human dignity. The main human rights instruments and human rights law give key obligations to states in terms of rights not to be subjected to torture and ill-treatment particularly in prisons, where are under the control and monitoring places.
The Government is in the position of fulfilling an implementation, which conforms to obligations in the main human rights (as it should be in all prisons), in İmrali prison, too.
The ill-treatment that has been applied to Abdullah Öcalan, who is being kept under perpetual “isolation” in one person prison, is against main principles of law on execution, international instruments that regulate rights and statutes of arrested and sentenced people and human rights.
We would like to repeat that keeping Abdullah Öcalan in one person prison, which is a different situation from other prisoners, is a serious violation of right. It is a condensed and over 10 year isolation application that is unacceptable.
As human rights defenders, we emphasize that human rights should be provided for everyone under any conditions without any exception. Right to life and not to be subjected to torture are two of the fundamental rights.
It is clear that the issue is highly important and urgent. The application to Öcalan should be investigated seriously by all institutions, especially the Government, of the state and the society should be informed as soon as possible. We demand for clarification of the attitude opposite to the law and determination of those that are responsible and administrative and judicial processes against them as soon as possible in a period on which social tensions are being tried to be increased, tension policies are being provoked.
HUMAN RIGHTS ASSOCIATION