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The attic in which Cretan businessman Michalis Lempidakis was being held for the past six months had been transformed into a prison cell. Lempidakis, who was shackled with chains, was living the small attic, sleeping on a mattress while the confined area was sunless, as there were no windows. The photos show an old loom, a chair where one of the gang would sit and guard him.

The Justice Ministry submitted an amendment to Parliament Tuesday that will allow prisoners convicted of a range of offenses to be granted conditional release from jail as long as they wear an electronic monitoring bracelet.

Amnesty International Secretary-General Salil Shetty on Sept. 9 visited the organization's Turkey director İdil Eser, who was jailed on "terrorism" charges two months ago along with seven other activists, being held in Istanbul's Silivri prison.

Social sciences and institutions, private of public, have always played and will, no doubt, continue play a very important role in studying, researching and analysing trends in societies and proposing solutions or necessary courses of actions to move forward. But for all their hard work and dedication they sometimes miss the mark, by more than a mile.

Amnesty International Secretary General Salil Shetty on Sept. 6 was not permitted to visit the organization's Turkey director İdil Eser, who was jailed on "terrorism" charges two months ago.

During his visit to Turkey, Shetty applied for authorization to visit to Eser in Istanbul's Silivri Prison but he was not received at the prosecutor's office at the prison.

I have been a member of Turkish Parliament representing Istanbul for the opposition Republican People’s Party for the past six years.

The uniformed duty staff at Sofia Prison will be increased on weekends after yesterday there was a beating between prisoners, the General Directorate of Execution of Penalties (DGIN) announced, quoted by BGNES.

The situation has been controlled in time and the participants in the beating are immediately handed over to a duty public prosecutor.

Japan executed two convicted murderers on July 13, the justice ministry said, ignoring calls from international rights groups to end capital punishment.

The hangings of Masakatsu Nishikawa and Koichi Sumida bring to 19 the total number of executions since conservative Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came to power in late 2012.

Police detained 10 human rights activists on July 5, including the Turkey head of Amnesty International, İdil Eser, at a meeting on an island off Istanbul.

The activists had gathered at a hotel on Büyükada, one of the Princes' Islands in the Marmara Sea, where they were organizing a "digital security and information management workshop," according to Amnesty International.

Police have detained 12 human rights activists, including the Turkey head of Amnesty International, İdil Eser, at a meeting on an island near Istanbul.

They had gathered at a hotel on Büyükada island in the Marmara Sea when they were taken to a police station on July 5. It was not clear why they were being held and they had not been given access to lawyers.