According to the UN Bangkok Rules, women prisoners’ dignity & respect have to be protected and alternative search methods have to be developed in order to avoid the harmful psychological and possible physical impact of invasive body searches. @UNODC @AvOzlemZengin https://twitter.com/yase_aydin/status/1340301975242596352

#Turkey is systematically strip searching not only, but especially political prisoners and even their visitors - the strip search of a 7-year old disabled girl, visiting her father, is one of the stories, which became public after brave Women started to tell what happened to them

“Don’t stay silent against strip-search” was widely shared with the Turkish hashtag  #CiplakAramayaSessizKalma by activists and women who were subjected to harassment in prisons or police custody. The social media campaign was launched by the journalist @sevincozarslan

Strip searching became a means of subjugation in Turkey: women who recently gave birth as well as women during their menstrual cycle, toddlers and babies are strip-searched, and guards searching inside their diapers.

The State should be protecting the dignity, rights and freedoms of all humans - but what shall the victims of sexual harassment and torture do, when it is the State itself violating their rights?

Do you have an idea about how much courage it needs to speak up against a State, when you already have experienced the unlawful abuse of power? These Women created such a brave #MeToo momentum!

And then, @AvOzlemZengin, as a deputy from the ruling AKP, is coming and telling not that she will investigate it, no, she is telling:

“I have never believed in the existence of strip-searches in Turkey. There simply is no such thing.”
Shame on you, @AvOzlemZengin