arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

PRESS STATEMENT BY IKM (Committee For Struggle Against Torture ThroughIsolation)
with reference to the press statement by IKM today, "Massacre of theprisoners"
THE NUMBER OF THE DEAD PRISONERS HAS RISEN TO 20
LIST OF THE DEAD AND MURDERED PRISONERS
Sadi Ozbolat, Yazgulu Guder Ozturk and 10 other prisoners whose names are
unknown have been murdered in Bayrampasa
Ahmet Ibili set himself on fire in Umraniye and was then shot dead bysoldiers
Hasan Gungormez and Irfan Ortakci were murdered in Cankiri
Fidan Kalsen was murdered in CanakkaleMurat Ozdemir was murdered in Bursa
Burhan Gardas was murdered in AydinMesut Ors burned himself to death in Bursa
In some prisons, the resistance, and also the attacks go on. The prisoners
in some other prisons have been transferred into military hospitals.
They are refusing any form of nutrition.
Dozens of relatives of prisoners had their houses stormed shortly after the
beginning of the massacre. A youth who took part in a protest has been
shot and has been put in a hospital ward set aside for prisoners. Hundreds
of relatives and their supporters have been arrested in front of prisons or
during street protests.