Signed by the Center for Lawyers' Rights, Prison Council and Center for Human Rights affiliated with the Ankara Bar Association, the report has shared detailed information on the allegations of torture, including the accounts of the ones who claim that they were tortured in custody.
After almost two years of imprisonment, Ayşenur’s ordeal is not getting any easier according to her colleague Sevinç Özarslan who published Ayşenur’s letters from prison with her permission on Kronos last week.
Mevlüt Öztaş was one of the hundreds of Turkish journalists who were imprisoned in the past few years. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in April 2020. After several requests for his release on health grounds, he was finally freed in June. Öztaş passed away on August 19, 2020, 57 days after his release from prison. Here is an excerpt from his prison diary.