Lawfare from İmralı Prison to Stockholm – a weekly news review

As journalist Merdan Yanardağ is imprisoned for criticising the illegal isolation of Abdullah Öcalan, Sarah Glynn examines the human rights issues concerning Öcalan’s incarceration, and how the brutal regime of his İmralı Island prison has been used as a model for an increasingly punitive and sadistic Turkish Legal system. Every opportunity is also being taken to try and force other countries to shape their judiciary according to Turkish government wishes, notably in Sweden.