Penitentiary institutions have described suicides in the last two cases by the Directorate of Penitentiary Institutions. Last January, according to the autopsy, the prisoner was killed by a heroin overdose. “The deaths are silenced, we know there is more,” Salhaketa said. Among prisoners, more than 80 per cent of prisoners suffer from drug dependencies, according to EiTB data.

After that death, Salhaketa added that those responsible for the prisons put obstacles in the way of seeing the body or knowing what has happened: “If the same people are imprisoned as second-class citizens, the same is true of their families,” he said, according to Hala Bedi.