Justice Vigil for ill prisoners reaches day 97

The Justice Vigil action, carried out by the families of ill prisoners and those prisoners who are not released despite having served their sentence, at the offices of the Diyarbakır Bar Association, has entered its 97th day. The Confederation of Public Workers Unions (KESK) co-chair, Mehmet Bozgeyik, and union members visited families.

Speaking during the visit, Mehmet Bozgeyik said that they support the action of the families and endorsed their demands. Referring to the pressures on the prisoners, Bozgeyik said: “There are those who cannot survive on their own and who are not released from prisons because of reports saying that they can stay in prison. Unfortunately, both the government and the heads of the Ministry of Justice and Forensic Medicine Institute continue to issue reports saying that seriously ill prisoners can ‘stay in prisons’, and ignore the reports given by physicians. We are faced with a process in which ill prisoners are left to die in jail.”

Herdem Merwani and Hakkı Boltan, from the prisoners’ relatives, emphasized that the primary need in the country is justice, and added: “It is clear that the main source of the problems this country is facing is the lack of justice. Which is why we said that our demand is objectively serving everyone in Turkey.”