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JOURNALISTS ON COUP TRIAL MOVED TO SEPERATE CELLS
Tuncay Özkan and Mustafa Balbay, two journalists who were being kept in the same jail cell as their trial on the Ergenekon case continues, were moved to two single-person cells in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Özkan explained in a letter sent to Istanbul Bar Association Chairman Ümit Kocasakal and the parliamentary committee on human rights that they had been removed from the cell they had shared until Feb. 28, and the prison authorities had used force and threatened both journalists when they resisted the move.
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Tuncay Özkan and Mustafa Balbay, two journalists who were being kept in the same jail cell as their trial on the Ergenekon case continues, were moved to two single-person cells in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Özkan explained in a letter sent to Istanbul Bar Association Chairman Ümit Kocasakal and the parliamentary committee on human rights that they had been removed from the cell they had shared until Feb. 28, and the prison authorities had used force and threatened both journalists when they resisted the move.
“We were taken to a room at around 2:30 a.m. by the prison managers and some 50 guards and then told they would separate us,” Özkan wrote in his letter, adding that prison authorities had told them they had received an order from the Justice Ministry in Ankara to keep them in separate cells.
“When we rejected this, they used force upon us. Our lives were not safe anymore. We were put in separate cells,” Özkan wrote, adding that the conditions of the new cell he had been brought to were very poor, as it was still under construction.
Özkan’s lawyer, Ahmet Çörtoğlu, said the two journalists could be separated from the cell they used to share together only if they had received an administrative punishment or committed a disciplinary action. “They did not show any justification [for the separation].”
The prisoners were allegedly not provided with food before or after being moved from their joint prison cell.
Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin said Wednesday the accommodation capacities of the prison in Silivri had previously been insufficient, and that now new blocks and prison units had been opened and made available to accommodate prisoners and those under arrest more comfortably.
“I do not agree with allegations that different standards are applied to people in the Silivri Prison. In general, prisons of the same kind have similar standards,” Ergin said, adding that they would punctually treat any related complaints.
The Justice Ministry, on the other hand, announced that the separation had been done for “overcrowding” purposes only, and that the new spaces provided by an expansion of the prison building were about to be used for prisoners or people being kept under arrest staying in what they termed “crowded cells.”
The ministry also denied all allegations that people in prison had not been served food and had been treated badly during their transfer to the new cells. “Moreover, allegations about the new cells being under construction and that the heating system does not work are not true,” the statement said.
Meanwhile, Özkan is considering a run for Parliament in the June 12 elections. He said during a hearing that he would stand as a parliamentary candidate for Istanbul in the upcoming general elections.
Although Özkan is the leader of a small party called the New Party, or YP, he will most likely stand as an independent candidate. The YP does not meet the requirements to enter a general election and was not listed among the parties declared by the Supreme Election Council, or YSK, this month.
There were suggestions that both he and Balbay would stand as candidates for other parties, but the rumors were not confirmed.
March 2, 2011
SOURCE:HURRIYETDAILYNEWS.COM
“We were taken to a room at around 2:30 a.m. by the prison managers and some 50 guards and then told they would separate us,” Özkan wrote in his letter, adding that prison authorities had told them they had received an order from the Justice Ministry in Ankara to keep them in separate cells.
“When we rejected this, they used force upon us. Our lives were not safe anymore. We were put in separate cells,” Özkan wrote, adding that the conditions of the new cell he had been brought to were very poor, as it was still under construction.
Özkan’s lawyer, Ahmet Çörtoğlu, said the two journalists could be separated from the cell they used to share together only if they had received an administrative punishment or committed a disciplinary action. “They did not show any justification [for the separation].”
The prisoners were allegedly not provided with food before or after being moved from their joint prison cell.
Justice Minister Sadullah Ergin said Wednesday the accommodation capacities of the prison in Silivri had previously been insufficient, and that now new blocks and prison units had been opened and made available to accommodate prisoners and those under arrest more comfortably.
“I do not agree with allegations that different standards are applied to people in the Silivri Prison. In general, prisons of the same kind have similar standards,” Ergin said, adding that they would punctually treat any related complaints.
The Justice Ministry, on the other hand, announced that the separation had been done for “overcrowding” purposes only, and that the new spaces provided by an expansion of the prison building were about to be used for prisoners or people being kept under arrest staying in what they termed “crowded cells.”
The ministry also denied all allegations that people in prison had not been served food and had been treated badly during their transfer to the new cells. “Moreover, allegations about the new cells being under construction and that the heating system does not work are not true,” the statement said.
Meanwhile, Özkan is considering a run for Parliament in the June 12 elections. He said during a hearing that he would stand as a parliamentary candidate for Istanbul in the upcoming general elections.
Although Özkan is the leader of a small party called the New Party, or YP, he will most likely stand as an independent candidate. The YP does not meet the requirements to enter a general election and was not listed among the parties declared by the Supreme Election Council, or YSK, this month.
There were suggestions that both he and Balbay would stand as candidates for other parties, but the rumors were not confirmed.
March 2, 2011
SOURCE:HURRIYETDAILYNEWS.COM
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