Visit Permission of 11 Hours Per Day for Imprisoned Gang Leader Çakıcı

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According to a report by Hürriyet daily newspaper, it was demanded in the medical report prepared on June 22 that visitor limit to Çakıcı be lifted.

In the indefinite medical board report signed by Kırıkkale Provincial Health Director Feramiş Ender Güngüneş and Yüksek İhtisas Hospital Chief Doctor Tekin Akça as well as six other expert doctors, it was said that Çakıcı has 16 different diseases and six of them are vital.

The report requested that he shall be visited be his first, second, third, fourth degree relatives and close friends seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. “so that he can hold on to life again”.

Rights association: There are 1,154 sick prisoners 402 of whom are seriously ill

Human Rights Association (IHD) Prisons’ Commission announced that there are 1,154 sick prisoners 402 of whom are seriously ill in Turkey, and prisoners’ access to right to medication need to be ensured.

IHD stated that 3 thousand 500 prisoners lost their lives in prisons in the last 17 years. (EKN/TK)