Human Rights Association (IHD) Diyarbakır Branch announced the “Eastern and Southeastern Anatolian Region 2018 Human Rights Violations Report”. The report indicates that freedom of expression, thought and organization is under an indefinite and limitless threat in Turkey. According to the report, a total of 11,643 rights violations were experienced in Kurdish provinces within one year.
Here are some of the rights violations included in the report, which indicates that a total of 439 applications were made at IHD’s Diyarbakır, Dersim, Maraş, Van and Batman branches on violations of human rights:
One annual festival was banned. Three issues of one newspaper and 12 books were pulled off shelves. Raids were organized against one publishing house, one news agency and one newspaper representative. 8 access bans were brought against websites.
Investigations were started against 77 people due to their thoughts in 12 investigation files. Lawsuits were filed against 91 people in 19 case files. Various sentences of imprisonment and judicial fines were issued against 684 people in 61 files, including those against politicians, journalists and public workers. 18 political party buildings were attacked or raided.
2,837 people were detained. 54 of those detained were children. 496 people were arrested. Five of those arrested were children. 2,368 houses were raided.
At least 17 people were tortured and exposed to mistreatment under custody, 83 people outside of custody and 211 people in prisons.
13 public demonstrations or open-air meetings were intervened. Meetings and demonstrations were banned indefinitely in some provinces and repetitively each month in others. Ban decrees were issued 26 times in the year 2018.
2 people have lost their lives in unsolved murders; six people were wounded. 11 people have lost their lives and 106 people were wounded due to official faults and neglect.
A total of 16 curfews were declared in five provinces; 46 special security zones were declared in six provinces.
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06.02.2019
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