After some 2,000 lawyers from Turkey and around the globe called on Turkey’s Justice Ministry to break the imposed isolation of Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Ocalan, European lawyers redoubled their demands at an online press conference on Tuesday.
At the conference, the lawyers stressed that the imposed isolation of Ocalan, who has been prevented from any contact with lawyers or family members since March 2021, was a serious and systematic violation of the rights of both prisoners and lawyers.
Ocalan, who has been held on the prison island of İmralı since his capture in 1999, was allowed to hold brief telephone conversations with his brother Mehmet Ocalan in March 2021 and in the previous year. The last meetings the PKK leader was allowed to hold with his lawyers took place during a three-month spell in 2019.
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At the European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights (ELDH)’s online press meeting, representatives from different countries called on the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) to revisit İmralı Prison.
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