Solidarity tent and Urgent Appeal to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva

The information and solidarity tent near the UN Office for Human Rights at the United Nations Square in Geneva continues for the 3rd day. Today, Sükriye Akar, the wife of political prisoner Fikret Akar who continues an indefinite hunger strike against pit-type isolation prisons for 146 days, personally handed over her urgent appeal to the human rights commission of the UN.

Further, an interview was made with Sukriye Akar and the organizers of the tent by the Kurdish Press Agency ANF..

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ANF article (TR)

A file was submitted to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) against pit-type prisons

On the third day of the vigil in front of the UN building in Geneva, a file documenting serious human rights violations in Turkish prisons was submitted to OHCHR.

The vigil started in front of the UN building in Geneva, Switzerland, is continuing into its third day. The protest was organised by the Basel Boran Cultural Centre and the Swiss People’s Front.

The protesters submitted a dossier documenting the isolation and torture of political prisoners in Turkish prisons to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

VIDEO: ŞÜKRİYE AKAR: THE UN MUST BREAK ITS SILENCE

Şükriye Akar, wife of hunger striker Fikret Akar, said, “Isolation and rights violations are clear violations of international law. The UN’s silence legitimises this oppression.” Pointing out that her husband and nine other prisoners who are continuing their resistance have reached a critical stage in their hunger strike, Şükriye Akar said that the prisoners are being deprived of their most basic human needs.