The officer, detained on accusation of involvement in the attempted coup, was ill-treated during interrogation but police officers denied allegations of torture claiming that the detainee had been injured during the night of the coup. In a 43-page report, “A Blank Check: Turkey’s Post-Coup Suspension of Safeguards Against Torture,” published on Tuesday, HRW documented 13 […]
An Istanbul-based lawyer told Human Rights Watch (HRW) that police officers tortured her two clients by squeezing their testicles and forcing to undress them, another indication of reemergence of most cruel torture methods in Turkish prisons. In a 43-page report, “A Blank Check: Turkey’s Post-Coup Suspension of Safeguards Against Torture,” published on Tuesday, HRW documented
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Forced to stay under stress-position for longs hours, one of the Turkey’s post-coup detainees suffered from frozen shoulder, a forensic specialist told Human Rights Watch (HRW). 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 detainees. The alleged
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A forensic specialist told Human Rights Watch that Turkey’s post-coup detainees prefer not to talk about bruises, stemmed from torture, on their body as they fear from further persecution in prison. 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
Under arrest as part of an investigation into a July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, a Turkish professor has been rendered incapable of even counting right amount of money to pay for a bottle of water at the prison canteen as a result of days of harsh treatment. Merve Reyhan Kayıkçı, a researcher at KU
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People imprisoned as part of a government crackdown on the Gülen movement are being systematically tortured in the most barbaric ways including rape, removal of nails and the insertion of objects into their anuses, according to the president of a leading lawyers association. Allegations of ill-treatment of Turkey’s post-coup prisoners are becoming more widespread; in
Under custody for his alleged links to the Gülen movement, the head of AKTIF SEN Educators Union’s Afyon branch has been tortured so heavily that he could not be able walk for some time. Independent news portal TR724 on Wednesday published the eighth part in a series on the re-emergence of torture in Turkey’s detention
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Günay Dağ, a lawyer representing 17-year-old H.İ. in İstanbul’s Maltepe youth prison, has been battered by custody guards after he asked questions about the authenticity of allegations of torture on his client. Dağ has stopped by the Maltepe youth prison in order to meet with H.İ. who went on a hunger strike after he was
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In an open letter to the Turkish Parliament, six Turkey-based human rights associations on Thursday criticized recent remarks of ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) deputy Mehmet Metiner, who said the government would ignore allegations of torture and mistreatment if victims were sympathizers of the Gülen movement. The Helsinki Citizens Assembly (HYD), Human Rights Association
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Guards in İstanbul’s Silivri prison pricked sewing needles to a female convict after she chanted slogans and refused to obey the management’s order to stay in a holding cell, according to her lawyer. In the light of massive arrests and detentions of the Gülen movement sympatizers, Turkish government has been relocating some prisoners in order
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