Announcing that they have initiated the "Sibling Family" campaign to raise the solidarity for the common fight against the coronavirus outbreak HDP Co-Chair Pervin Buldan, added: "A voice, an image from the İmralı Prison should reach to the public", reminding the risk of pandemic that the PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan also faces in prison.
Journalists, chasing the news on the field, are among the professions who are subjected to the thread of the coronavirus pandemic, says the TGS Chairman Gökhan Durmuş as they are informed of at least a media worker to be infected every day.
Evaluating the new regulation of the execution law, lawyer Yusuf Alataş said, "If they do not comply with the principle of equality even under the circumstances of the pandemic, it means that there is no justice or a system of justice in a state. It means the state justice system is completely bankrupt".
Stating the coronavirüs makes no distinction, but the Ministry of Helath does, Dev Sağlık-İş Union administrator Cumali Bolat demanded the cleaning staff, nursing personnel, nurses and medical secretary who are in the status of 4-D to be included in the return of capital.
HDP MP Ömer Öcalan talked about the new regulation of the execution law, in which the political prisoners are kept outside the contexts and rasied his protests by saying "As long as there is the hostility against Kurds at the basics of the state they will always try how to end the Kurds".
Police have prevented a funeral service in Istanbul for Grup Yorum musician Helin Bölek, who died on death fast against state repression. Numerous people were detained by the police.
The Federation of the Associations of Solidarity with Prisoners' Families (MED TUHAD-FED) issued a written statement to celebrate the birthday of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan.
Families of Journalists Mehmet Ferhat Çelik and Aydın Keser who are not included to the new law of execution, demanded their release along with other political prisoners.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic and an expected sanitary crisis in Turkish detention centres, PACE co-rapporteurs for the monitoring of Turkey, Thomas Hammarberg (Sweden, SOC) and John Howell (United Kingdom, EC/DA), have urged the Turkish authorities to ensure that any early or conditional release of prisoners is non-discriminatory and does not exclude prisoners detained on political grounds.
The only measure taken by the Adana Kürkçüler Prison administration turned out to be distributing one latex glove and one surgical mask per month.
Sabri Kaya, who was treated at Osmaniye State Hospital for 10 days as a result of a heart attack and brain hemorrhage, has been brought back to prison.
According to the news, Verdê Çetin was the last to die. It was reported that her husband Cahit Çetin, 64, died on the same day before Çetin. Both were being treated in Kızıltepe district.
Stating that the regulation envisaging the changes in the law of execution is against the principle of equality, Adana Bar Association Human Rights Commission Chairperson Nurettin Tanış said: "There is a need for libertarian laws based on justice that concern all segments of society."
69 more people have died of Covid-19 in Turkey during the past 24 hours.
Eleven-year-old Yusuf Yıldırak, injured by an explosion in a pasture three days ago, succumbed to his injuries.