ISTANBUL | 14-01-2014 | Families continue to demand justice for their children who were jailed following Gezi protests that erupted and spread across the country last July. The Gezi Park protests sparked off on May 27 when a group of activists from Taksim Solidarity gathered in Istanbul’s Gezi Park after bulldozers came to the area to cut down trees. The ...

ISCWPP | 05-12-2013 | On December 2000 the security forces of the fascist Turkish state started a parallel bloody operation in 22 prison, resulting in the killing of 28 revolutionary prisoners.  The directive of this bloody operation was given by the coalition government at that time DSP, ANAP and MHP, during the operation hundreds of prisoners were injured. In prisons ...

INDIA| 12-11-2013 | The arrest of an Indian MP’s wife for allegedly torturing her maid to death and a recent report on global slavery has shed light on the need to protect the vulnerable. The abuse and exploitation of domestic workers in India continues to rise in the absence of a law to safeguard their rights. The surging demand for ...

Oakland – USA | 18 – 08 – 2013  | All eyes are on California, as prisoners across the state’s vast prison system hit their 38th day of hunger strike in protest of the torturous conditions of solitary confinement.  Prisoners’ loved ones and supporters joined 100 people on the steps of the state capitol Wednesday afternoon to demand swift and resolute ...

DİYARBAKIR | 18 – 08 – 2013 | The Human Rights Association (IHD) Diyarbakır Branch has released its report on human rights violations in the the East and South East regions jails for the first 6 months of 2013. The report underlined the ill-treatment and torture practices are still very high and warned that death toll could climb due to ...

TURKEY | 27 – 06 – 2012 | A specially authorized court in the eastern province of Malatya sentenced Kurdish-Alevi singer Ferhat Tunç to two years in prison on terrorism related charges due to his invocation of the names of deceased Turkish leftists during a speech on May 1, 2011. The Malatya specially authorized Third Court for Serious Crimes sentenced ...

INDIA | 30 – 05 – 2009 | Defend the right to freedom of expression and political opinion! Release all the political prisoners who have been booked for exercising their right to not vote in Yamunanagar! Condemn the attempts of the government to foist false cases and negative profiling of the political activists!

| 23 – 11 – 2008 | On October 24, the German police has arrested Mehmet Comut while he was on a family visit in Freiburg, Germany. His arrest follows a request by the Turkish authorities for his extradition. Mr. Çömüt was a witness of the brutal prison massacre of the 19th December 2000, which was carried out by the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO | 14 – 11 – 2008 | Cebraspo express its complete solidarity to the Turkish refugee Mehmet Comut, that was arrested by the German police on October 24, when was visiting some parents in Freiburg, Germany. Mehmet spent many years in the terrible prisons of Turkey – denounced internationally by the sbhuman conditions tha are submitted the ...

Another case of inhumane and provocative practices on political refugees by the German Legal System! GERMANY | 09 – 11 – 2008 | On October 24, German police has arrested Mehmet Comut while he was on a family visit at Freiburg,Germany. His arrest follows a request from the Turkish authorities for his extradition. Previously Mehmet Comut spent many years in ...