Torture

“I was subjected to violence and sexual abuse. I was interrogated day and night for eight days. They [police officers] questioned me while they were drunk. When the court process began, I was sent to prison. Later, they put me in a cell, in solitary confinement… I’m afraid I’ll be forgotten here.” Read these words

An Antalya-based teacher told his wife that police had beaten him so badly during interrogation that his intestines had been destroyed and that he had to have a surgery. In a 43-page report, “A Blank Check: Turkey’s Post-Coup Suspension of Safeguards Against Torture,” published on Tuesday, HRW documented 13 specific abuse incidents concerning Turkey’s post-coup

A lawyer reported to Human Rights Watch that the five were taken to a darkened room, stripped naked, beaten in their testicles with a baton and threatened with rape. In a 43-page report, “A Blank Check: Turkey’s Post-Coup Suspension of Safeguards Against Torture,” published on Tuesday, HRW documented 13 specific abuse incidents concerning Turkey’s post-coup

Detained shortly after the failed coup, a Turkish woman told Human Rights Watch that she was deprived of enough food and water while police also turned up the volume of television in order to prevent her from sleeping in custody. In a 43-page report, “A Blank Check: Turkey’s Post-Coup Suspension of Safeguards Against Torture,” published

Police officers threatened to rape a group of detainees as well as their wives after the latter group denied accusations that they were members of the Gülen movement, a lawyer told Human Rights Watch (HRW). “Police officers had accused them of being members of the Gülen movement. If they denied the accusations, the client had

“Police officer banged my client’s head on the floor, causing marks and bruises on his head. When I complaint about ill-treatment, the police said it would be very easy for him to have me arrested for being a member of the Gülen movement as well,” a lawyer told Human Rights Watch. In a 43-page report,

A high-ranking officer, suspected of involvement in the failed coup, told a judge that he was severely beaten while under custody at the Ankara police headquarters and showed him a large bruise on his body. Yet, court transcript of his testimony left out details of the ill- treatment, a lawyer told Human Rights Watch (HRW).