Asrın Law Office lawyers apply to the Ministry of Justice to visit Imrali

According to Mezopotamya Agency (MA), lawyers have filed new applications demanding an “urgent visit” with Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan, Ömer Hayri Konar, Hamili Yıldırım and Veysi Aktaş.

The applications were made separately to the Ministry of Justice, the General Directorate of Prisons and Detention Houses of the Ministry of Justice and the Human Rights Department of the Ministry of Justice, following the application filed to the Bursa Execution Judge.

According to the news, the lawyers demanded that “the uncertainty about the life and health of their clients created by the alarming conditions of imprisonment should be ended by allowing lawyers and family visits.”

Lawyers at Asrın Law Office said that they were very concerned because they had not heard from Abdullah Öcalan and his 3 other clients for 8 months, and that they had no information about their life and health conditions as well as their detention conditions.

On 23 November, Asrın Law Office applied to Bursa Execution Judge demanding an “urgent visit” with Abdullah Öcalan and other prisoners in İmralı.

Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan has been held in total isolation in Imrali High Security F-Type Prison since he was taken captive in 1999, as a result of an international conspiracy.

News from Abdullah Öcalan came from him on a phone call with his brother on 25 March this year. This meeting was short and abruptly interrupted.

The lawyers were able to meet Abdullah Öcalan on 2 and 22 May, 12 and 18 June, 7 August 2019, after 8 years without meeting him. Since 7 August 2019, all applications have been either rejected or gone unanswered.