solitary confinement

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Pages about single-person detention in prison and about the length of the solitary confinement periods.

Ten people transferred to Erzurum are held in solitary

Furkan Haber reports ten detainees in the case are in solitary confinement, moved from around Adana to Erzurum without their families or lawyers being informed.

The claim that he supports terrorism or regards it as legitimate

After the attack on the Adana governor's office on 25 November 2016 he said "rights are not sought by killing innocent people"; two years later he was named together with four separate terrorist organisations.

Unfounded

The First Forum Program After His Release

The forum program held on Friday, 13 December 2019, eight days after the release of 5 December 2019: prison memories, the letters that arrived and questions about the court process.

"If They Arrest Me Again, I Am at Home"

His answers, in three separate programmes within the ten days after his release, to the question of being arrested again: the coal-and-diamond analogy, that the appointed hour is but one, and that he is at home.

14 of the 22 Months in Prison Were Spent in a Single-Person Room

Fourteen months of the 8 February 2018 – 5 December 2019 detention were spent alone in a three-person room; the requests for a roommate were refused on the grounds of an instruction from the Ministry.

The "He made propaganda for FETÖ" claim

While the indictment writes propaganda for a terrorist organization, the police documents in the same case file write that no involvement, contact or association with FETÖ could be found. The contradiction lies inside a single file.

Unfounded

March 2019: The letter Alparslan Kuytul wrote to the public from prison

In the letter he wrote from Bolu F-Type Prison in March 2019: his answer to the terrorism charge and the words "Until I die I will go on saying Tawhid, Justice, Freedom, Civilisation".

29 April 2019: The letter Alparslan Kuytul wrote to the public from prison

In the letter he wrote from Bolu F-Type Prison in April 2019: his answer to the terrorism charge and the words "Until I die I will go on saying Tawhid, Justice, Freedom, Civilisation".