The prisoner Medeni Kiye, who was beaten by the guards on the grounds that he was talking to the prisoners in the next cell, lost his ability to speak. His sister talked about his health status.
BOLD – It has been reported that the guards at Elazığ No. 2 High-Security Prison assaulted the detainees speaking with their friends in the next cell on 4 August. In the attack, Medeni Kiye lost his consciousness because of heavy blows but was not taken to a hospital.
According to Mesopotamia News Agency; in 2006, Medeni Kiye was arrested in Erzurum and was sent to İzmir, Patnos and then Elazığ prisons against his will. In Elazığ Prison, Kiye was held in a cell for a long time and after he had a heart attack, he was taken to the room where the other prisoners were put. Kiye’s sister Hatice Kiye mentioned that; her brother, whose left side was constantly numb, had lost the ability to speak after being beaten by the guards.
Hatice Kiye stated that they reported torture to Van Bar Association and Van Branch of Human Rights Association, and stated the following about her brother’s situation: “Last Thursday, after lawyers have met with my brother, they have told me that he was unable to communicate verbally, and that they communicated by written language. My brother’s lack of speech reveals the extent of torture. What a savagery it is to beat a prisoner with your hands to this degree. When we called the prison on Monday, they have told us ‘We cannot give you any information about this issue, it is out of our authority.’ We waited for him to call on Thursday’s phone day. Normally, he was supposed to call at 11:00 am. When he didn’t call, I called the prison many times. Every time, ‘There is no problem, he will call you’ was the answer. The last time I called at 4 pm, they said, ‘We’re redirecting,’ but then they hung up and never answered. A relative of a detainee called us. He said he couldn’t make a phone call because Medeni lost his ability to talk.”
WARDEN’S ORDER
Kiye said they worry about her brother’s life, and are stressed that they do not know the extent of torture he goes through. Kiye alleged that the attack was carried out after the orders of the prison warden. She also said; “A state of law should not be so incapable. It should not beat the prisoners so brutally. We cannot find any person to contact in prison. The lawyers met with the attorney general and they filed a criminal complaint. We filed a criminal complaint as a family.”