European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) sentenced Turkey to 10 thousand Euros of compensation in the application on ill convict Kemal Gömi due to “violating the torture and mistreatment ban.”
Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Department of Civil Engineering student Gömi, born in 1969, was arrested in 1993 due to “membership to Dev-Sol” and “attempting to overthrow the Constitutional order by armed force.” Gömi was sentenced to death penalty in 1997 following the prosecution and his sentence was turned into heavy life imprisonment after the death penalty was revoked. Gömi joined the hunger strikes in prisons in both 1996 and 2000 and started to be kept in solitary confinement after the December 19 Operation. The convict is still in solitary confinement and the Forensic Medicine Institute diagnosed the convict with “residual schizophrenia” on September 22, 2010 and stated that the convict “cannot live under the conditions of prison.” However, the applications made on the matter were left unconcluded.
19.02.2019
bianet.org