In shadows of the continued isolation and dispossession of the leader Ocalan within an
unknown area of the island of Imrali, far from the standards recognized by the United Nations, in
terms of its good standing and what is happening there. The approach is still focused on the
right of The leader Ocalan to meet his lawyers and his family.
Here is the Turkish state, with its utmost fascist methods, rejects by a decision of its Public
Prosecution in the city of Bursa, the request of his lawyers to visit him, which it concerned the
European Association of Lawyers for Democracy and World Human Rights and prompted it to
request the European Committee against Torture in Detention Centers to visit Imrali Prison.
Apart from kidnapping and trial as two independent international crimes against the leader
Ocalan and the Kurdish nation, the defense team for the freedom of leader Ocalan in northern
and eastern Syria, reminds the world of its responsibilities regarding what is happening in Imrali
prison. The physical and mental torture put against the leader Ocalan as a result of isolation and
dispossession is enormous. Therefore, we urge the community of international institutions and
freedom loving entities, which maybe still silent or not sufficiently vocal, to examine all
international crimes committed by the Turkish state against peoples, and the extent of their
danger to freedom, democracy, peace and security in the world.
The Committee for Defending the Freedom of the leader Ocalan in North and East Syria, which
includes in its membership all lawyers in North and East Syria as well as many political and
human rights activists, as such, took the initiative to declare this statement due to the ongoing
danger it senses on the leader Ocalan. This Committee, respectfully urges and call upon the
United Nations General Assembly, to review and apply its resolution 43/173 principles issued on
09/12/1988 – containing set of principles relating to the protection of all persons subjected to any
form of detention or prison, and its other resolution issued on 04/12/1990 – containing the basic
principles for the treatment of prisoners, and the convention 39/46 issued on 10/12/1984 –
against torture and other forms of cruel, inhuman and intimidating treatment, or punishment.
Our Committee believes that; the true strength of values and principles of these great
resolutions has been violated by the Turkish state in regard to the leader Ocalan. This chain of
international silence that is elevating the level of violations committed by the Turkish state,
needs to end. Therefore, our Committee respectfully urge you to send all the needed
committees, especially the European Committee against Torture in Detention, to Imrali prison,
especially since the Turkish state has recently issued a package of penalties against the leader
Ocalan in his terrible cell.. in which there is no space for life and rights.The level of exaggeration
is chauvinistic and violating of basic rights, under the pretext of a six months temporary order.
This technique has been created to cause illusion in regard to reason and time.. to deceive and
dodge the world about the real dispossession and Isolation time of the leader Ocalan in Imrali
prison since 08/15/1990.
The Turkish state is still defying the international community with its daily violations of the
general and human international laws. The violation of the essential rights of the leader Ocalan
to life, freedom and thought, by the Turkish state; is the gate for all its violations of protected
rights by public, international and humanitarian laws.
The Committee for Defending the Freedom of the Leader in North and East Syria
