by TurkeyPurge | Aug 20, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown, Torture
Lice Municipality’s former co-mayorRezan Zuğurli was arrested along with her 1-year-old son while her mother Firuze Zuğurli was battered by police officers during the operation on Thursday. Zuğurli, the co-mayor of the Diyarbakir’s Lice Municipality until she was...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 18, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
Three inmates in İstanbul’s Silivri Prison — Umut Gündüz Altın, Murat Yüksel and Musa Kurt — have been battered by more than 30 guards in “sponged rooms,” which led Yüksel and Kurt to lose their sight, the Cumhuriyet daily reported on Friday. According to the report...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 10, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
Zilan Aldatmaz, co-mayor of Van’s Saray district, has gotten her ring finger broken during a debate with wardens in an Elazığ Prison where she is held over terror charges. Arrested on Nov 1, 2016 on charges of membership to a terrorist organization, Aldatmaz was...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 9, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
An Ankara lawyer who wants to remain anonymous has said his/her client, detained over his links to the Gülen movement, was waiting his turn in fears to be tortured at a detention facility in Turkey’s capital. In his/her letter to the Human Rights Association (İHD),...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 9, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
A victim, who was detained over his alleged links to the Gülen movement, has identified the location of a secret detention facility in Ankara that was used by Turkish government authorities to practice both verbal and physical tortures on detainees in a 14-minute...
by TurkeyPurge | Aug 7, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
Law enforcement detained at least 36 people in Sapatan village in Turkey’s Kurdish eastern province of Hakkari on Sunday with pro-Kurdish Dihaber news portal claiming that some villagers were subjected to torture under custody. Police and gendarmerie carried out a...
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