According to the data announced by the Ministry of Justice, there are 442,506 people in Turkey subject to “release on probation” by May 2018. There are 379,100 separate files with “judicial control,” which is a form of release on probation.
Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TIHV) Secretary General Metin Bakkalcı emphasized hundreds of thousands of people are subject to release on probation and that the application is extended each day. Bakkalcı pointed out to the “risk that the mentality, applications and legal regulations banalizing torture, may be permanent and destructive after the State of Emergency as well.” Arbitrary custodies and arrests, violations of the right to fair trial and the extending “release on probation” stood among such applications.
There are journalists with bans against them on travelling abroad, medical doctors and rights advocates whose proceedings are ongoing, as well as “peace academics” and “substitute editors-in-chief of Özgür Gündem,” whose sentences are deferred; among those hundreds of thousands.
07.06.2018
bianet.org