{"id":49314,"date":"2026-03-26T16:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/49314\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T16:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T16:28:11","slug":"ihd-calls-for-release-of-critically-ill-kurdish-prisoner-amid-repeated-denial-of-sentence-suspension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/49314\/","title":{"rendered":"\u0130HD calls for release of critically ill Kurdish prisoner amid repeated denial of sentence suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IHD-Mehmet-Emin-Cam.png\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"460\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" data-lazy- data-lazy- alt=\"\" title=\"I\u0307HD - Mehmet Emin C\u0327am\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IHD-Mehmet-Emin-Cam-696x460.png\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"460\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IHD-Mehmet-Emin-Cam-696x460.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"I\u0307HD - Mehmet Emin C\u0327am\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Human Rights Association (\u0130HD) has called for the release of a 74-year-old, seriously ill Kurdish inmate, warning that his health has reached a critical stage after repeated denials of a suspension of his sentence, the \u0130lke TV news website <a href=\"https:\/\/ilketv.com.tr\/8-kentte-aciklama-hasta-tutuklu-mehmet-emin-camin-yasami-tehlikede\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u0130HD said Mehmet Emin \u00c7am\u2019s condition further deteriorated following his hospitalization in Batman on March 18. He was later transferred to Diyarbak\u0131r for suspected tuberculosis but returned to Batman T-Type Prison on Wednesday. \u00c7am has been suffering from a brain tumor as well as heart and kidney conditions and is also experiencing vision and hearing loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c7am\u2019s latest request for a suspended sentence was rejected on March 10. His legal team has submitted multiple applications for the suspension of his sentence, all of which have been denied on the basis of reports by Turkey\u2019s Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK), <a href=\"https:\/\/stockholmcf.org\/turkish-authorities-deem-paralyzed-inmate-with-brain-tumor-fit-for-prison\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which found him fit to remain in prison<\/a> \u2014 most recently in December 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c7am, a former provincial chair of the now-defunct Peace and Democracy Party (BDP), was first arrested in 2012, part of a crackdown on the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK), a Kurdish political umbrella group that Turkish authorities accuse of links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers\u2019 Party (PKK). After spending 10 months in pretrial detention, he was released but later sentenced to nine years in prison for alleged membership in a terrorist organization. Turkey\u2019s Supreme Court of Appeals upheld the conviction, and he was returned to prison on March 14, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Under Turkey\u2019s Law on the Execution of Sentences and Security Measures, courts may suspend the sentence of a prisoner who, due to a serious illness or disability, cannot sustain life under prison conditions and who is not considered a serious or concrete danger to society. Rights groups say the provision is very rarely applied in practice.<\/p>\n<p>According to \u0130HD data, at least 1,412 sick prisoners are currently being held in Turkish prisons, 335 of them in serious condition, 230 unable to manage daily life independently and 105 requiring constant care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Human Rights Association (\u0130HD) has called for the release of a 74-year-old, seriously ill Kurdish inmate, warning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[14048,14049,27546,27547,24969,131,14051,132,27548],"class_list":{"0":"post-49314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-council-of-forensic-medicine-atk","9":"tag-critically-ill-prisoners","10":"tag-human-rights-association-ihd","11":"tag-mehmet-emin-cam","12":"tag-prisoners-rights","13":"tag-stockholm","14":"tag-suspended-sentence","15":"tag-sweden","16":"tag-the-pro-kurdish-peace-and-democracy-party-bdp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116296424131662204","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}