The Human Rights Association (IHD) published the final declaration of the Prison Workshop held on April 26-27, 2025. The declaration lists isolation and “execution burning” practices, prevention of access to treatment for sick prisoners, arbitrary disciplinary penalties, restrictions on the right to expression and communication, lack of supervision and discrimination (including women, children, disabled people and LGBTI+) as the main violations.
The recommendations included human rights-based reorganization of execution and penal legislation, abolition of aggravated life imprisonment and Anti-Terror Law provisions, abolition of the Administrative and Observation Boards, ending practices such as strip/mouth searches, breaking the ATK monopoly and including independent physician boards in the process, extending the postponement of execution for sick prisoners, closing juvenile prisons, guaranteeing the right to mother tongue and communication, and independent access of civil society to prisons. IHD calls on all institutions to join a common line of struggle based on rights
August 21, 2025
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