ANKARA - The mother, who said "Long live my son" in Kurdish to her son in Kırıklar Prison, was banned from speaking for 3 months.
The prisoners in Kırıklar No. 1 Type F Closed Prison spoke about their rights violations in a letter they sent to Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Group Deputy Chairperson Meral Danış Beştaş.
In the letter sent by 5 prisoners held in Kırıklar Prison, it was stated that a prisoner's mother was sentenced to 3 months of "contact visit ban" for saying "Her bijî kurê min (Long live my son)" in Kurdish in an contact visit held in October.
'IT WAS REPORTED AS AN UNKNOWN LANGUAGE'
The prisoners stated that a disciplinary investigation was launched against them because they protested the rights violations with slogans in Kurdish. It was noted in the investigation that the sentences uttered in Kurdish were written as "unknown language".