ÊLİH, NORTHERN KURDISTAN
Since the framework of the execution law has been determined, political prisoners across Northern Kuridstan have been unrested against the discrimnatory pardon granted to top up the yes-men of the Erdogan dictatorship. Uprisings were predominantly forceful in Wan Type-M Prison and in Êlih Type-M Prison where an uprising was initiated yesterday evening.
The uprising, which was launched with the burning of wards and the chanting of the slogan “rebellion,” started on 04.04.2020, which also happens to be the birthday of the Peoples’ Leader Abdullah Ocalan, early in the afternoon.
While little information has been received from the inside regarding the uprising, which is said to be continuing, it was relfected to Nuce Ciwan cameras that the entire region surrounding the prison has been blockaded, with firefighters, dozens of ambulances, tanks, armoured Gandermerie vehicles, Riot Police and Special Force Police entering the prison. It has also been reported that physical force was used inside the prison, and that the tear gas used against the prisoners affected those outside.
Outside the prison, relatives of prisoners mobilised to the prison. People waiting in front of the prison until the late hours of the night asked the authorities to make a statement. While no explanation was made to the prisoners’ relatives, some people protested the event with applause and whistles with the rise of smoke from prison later in the night.
As the hours progressed, many prison vehicles were sent to the prison from the surrounding provinces. On the other hand, according to information obtained from the Human Rights Association (İHD) lawyers, 650 prisoners were exiled.
People’s Democratic Party (HDP) demanded to check the health status of the prisoners.
WHY?
Amid growing concerns over the spread of COVID-19 in prisons, the fascist Turkish government is accelerating the preparation of a discrimnatory draft law that will reportedly release up to 100,000 prisoners. The law applies to murderers, rapists, thieves, drug dealers and especially to police and jihadist sects.
Political prisoners were excluded from the new law to be passed in Turkish Parliament, which would grant the release and suspension of sentence-executions for many prisoners.
Journalists, human rights defenders and other activists who have been imprisoned for simply exercising their rights will remain behind unsanitary and overcrowded bars despite a pandemic, per the package of measures currently conceived by the fascist government.
From the execution package jointly prepared by the AKP and MHP, the murderers involved in the Soma, Ermenek mining massacres, Çorlu and Ankara train massacres, the Aladağ dormitory fire and the murders by police in the Gezi case are to be pardoned.
The package excluded “deliberate killing,” however, among the articles of law listed in this scope, the actions of “causing death by negligence” and “causing death without deliberate injury” were not included.
In other words, those who are under arrest for the Soma and Ermenek cases and the police officers in prison in the cases of Ali İsmail Korkmaz, Tahir Elçi, Berkin Elvan and Abdullah Cömert will be released.
“Anti-terrorism legislation is vague and widely abused in trumped-up cases against journalists, opposition political activists, lawyers, human rights defenders and others expressing dissenting opinions,” Amensty Intenrational expressed in relation to the Turkish legal system.
ARRESTED NEIGHBORS TO FLASH
When the revolt was heard in the city center, relatives of the detainees flocked to the prison. Citizens waiting in front of the prison until late in the night asked the authorities to make a statement. While no statements were made to the relatives of the detainees, some citizens protested the event with applause and whistles with the rise of the smoke from prison later in the night. As the hours progressed, many prison vehicles were sent to the prison from the surrounding provinces.
While the fire in the wards was extinguished, the prisoners were intervened with tear gas. After the fire was extinguished, it was learned that some of the detainees were loved to the prisons in the surrounding provinces, while the People’s Democratic Party (HDP) requested to check the health status of the detainees.
While the application was not responded, a large part of the crowd in front of the prison broke up, while some families were still waiting.
No official statement was made on the subject.
