Emir Karakum, a revolutionary prisoner is on hunger strike for 96th day against poor treatment in prison. He has been imprisoned for 10 months on the false testimony of anonymous witnesses. After his detention on December 3 2021, during İstanbul-based police raids, he was arrested at the Samsun Courthouse on December 6 2021 and was taken to the Samsun Type-T Prison. After starting a hunger strike there, he was transferred to the Bafra Type-T Prison. He was arrested for fighting for free, scientific and democratic education and for demanding justice. For 10 months he has been held in a solitary confinement cell in Bafra T Type prison. Every day he is subjected to psychological and physical violence by the prison guards. Minister of Justice Bekir Bozdağ says “there is no torture in prisons”, yet there is footage of Emir Karakum being tortured.
The prosecutor, as if he makes of fun of the public, says “he fell in the middle of the guards” despite the obvious attack by the guards in the footage. Prosecutor justify the behavior of the torturers. Emir Karakum has been on hunger strike for 96 days demanding that the torturing guards should be taken to court and a legal process against them should start. Other deman of him is to transfer to a prison where his friends kept. During his hunger strike Emir Karakum dropped from 67 kilos to 53 kilos.
His mother’s statement about the condition of Emir, reported by bianet:
“We talked about an hour ago. My son told me that the wardens and the prison director tortured him, and the doctors remained silent against the torture. He was subjected to extreme torture. The wardens arbitrarily entered to search the room, the director was also with them. He didn’t show any reaction. He said, ‘My arms are all bruised. He could hardly speak. I wanted so much to go to the prison today, but we couldn’t arrange a lawyer. We’ll go tomorrow.”
“My son has been in prison for nine months. He had been previously battered as well, I had seen for myself at the time. We couldn’t get a result at the infirmary. They don’t do anything, they don’t even write a report. [The doctor] ignores bruises. Last time, they didn’t even do a tomography scan. The doctor at the hospital is the same.”
“My son is constantly subjected to torture, psychological pressure, and physical violence. How can I be happy outside when he is being tortured?”
“I don’t feel well at all. I want to see him. In what age we are living? The officer of the state commits torture.”
“The officer of the state can’t do torture. My child is currently arrested pending trial, he is not even a criminal. He has nothing but letters. Think about it, they even took his covers and letters. We expect support from the public and lawyers.”
Freedom for Emir Karakum, end the torture in detention centers and prisons, charge the responsibles who allow the torture!