Torture, genocide regime in Imrali is tantamount to crime against humanity

The lawyer Fadia Sheikh Issa, Co-chair of the Lawyers Union in Afrin and Shahba cantons said: "The Turkish state does not apply any law in the matter of the leader, as after his kidnapping, it tried him in an unfair court."

Sheikh Issa indicated: "He was tried on June 29, 1999 with the death penalty, but it was replaced with a life sentence in 2005 according to Turkish Law No. 5170 of 2004, which is a less severe than the death penalty."

 Sheikh Issa stressed that visits are a right of political prisoners: "According to the prison system, political prisoners have rights, including regular visits by family, lawyers and friends."

 Sheikh Issa explained that the Turkish state violates the laws, and said: "The Turkish occupation authorities continue to impose a regime of torture and genocide on Leader Abdullah Ocalan, as he was denied meeting with his lawyer and family, with the exception of one meeting with his nephew Omar Ocalan, 44 months after they refused to allow them to visit him on October 23 of this year."

 Sheikh Issa explained that the Turkish state violates international conventions and laws, and noted: "The failure of the Turkish occupation state to implement the Right to Hope Law, which is an international law signed by many countries, including Turkey."

 Sheikh Issa made the point clear: "The Right to Hope Law stipulates that if twenty years of the sentence have passed, or the detainee has exceeded seventy years, he must be released, and both conditions apply to the leader; he is over seventy-five years old, and has spent more than a quarter of a century in prison ."

 She stressed that everything that is being applied to leader Abdullah Ocalan is contrary to and incompatible with Turkish and international law, especially with the Vienna Convention of 1968, and said: "The situation of the leader has shifted from a stage of severity and violence against him to a stage of enforced disappearance, and this is an international crime and is classified as a crime against humanity according to Article 7 of the Rome Statute of 1958."

 Fadia Sheikh Issa noted that the international constitution of the Turkish state specifically in Article 10 stipulates that prisoners should be treated humanely, but the Turkish occupation state continues to impose isolation on the leader."

 She called on international organizations, the United Nations, and human rights organizations in general to look into the case of the leader and find a solution to the isolation imposed on him, and to pressure the Turkish state to set him free.

 The lawyer Issam Muhammad, the member of the Lawyers Union in Aleppo described the regime of torture and genocide as a crime.

"A political prisoner has the right to meet with his family and lawyer, according to international charters and laws. However, the Turkish state violates this right, which constitutes a violation of the rights of a political prisoner," Muhammad said.

 Muhammad confirmed: "Law and customs stipulate that a political prisoner has right to express his opinion and present his ideas; because he is a political prisoner and his case is not a criminal case under international charters that give the right to a political prisoner to do so."

 Muhammad held human rights and international organizations responsible for pressuring the Turkish state to release the leader and said The Turkish state does not pay attention to these laws, but rather disregards them.

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ANHA