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Man faces aggravated life sentence for killing Pınar Gültekin

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Man faces aggravated life sentence for killing Pınar Gültekin

The court has accepted the indictment lodged against Cemal Metin A. for killing university student Pınar Gültekin. He is now facing aggravated life imprisonment on charge of “killing with monstrous feeling.”

How can you spend a lifetime ‘before four walls, taking five steps’?

How can you spend a lifetime ‘before four walls, taking five steps’?

Given an aggravated life sentence, Akman is forced to live in a five-step-long cell for 23 hours a day. For one hour, she is locked up in an open place so that she can get some air. Akman is on a death fast for 161 days, demanding an improvement of conditions.

29 July 2020 Ayça Söylemez

ECtHR Convicts Turkey for ‘Aggravated Life Imprisonment’

ECtHR Convicts Turkey for ‘Aggravated Life Imprisonment’

The ECtHR has again convicted Turkey in an appeal made against the legal practice stipulating that the convicts who have been sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment shall serve time in prison without a possibility of being released.

12 February 2019 Ayça Söylemez