The commission for human rights of the Turkish Parliament will investigate into the cases of torture and ill-treatment at a juvenile prison in Izmir’s Aliağa district, Hürriyet Daily News reports.
The president of the commission, Ayhan Sefer Üstün, said in a statement that he himself would visit the Şakran Prison on June 3 and another prison in the southern province of Antalya on June 4. The commission has already monitored 26 prisons during the parliamentary year, he is quoted as saying by Hürriyet.
The situation at the Şakran Prison has caused public attention after the Progressive Lawyers’ Association claimed on May 28 that children were kept for days and months in cells that had only 3 square meters area.
