by TurkeyPurge | May 1, 2017 | Human Rights Abuses, Today in Crackdown, Torture
Under arrest since mid-January, pro-Kurdish DIHA news agency editor Ömer Çelik has said he was forced to stand in a bucket filled with cold water, by police officers who took him into custody late December, 2016. An Istanbul court ruled on arrest of Çelik and his two...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 7, 2016 | Today in Crackdown
The National Police Department warned all its personnel to obey international rules of detention and to stop using unofficial detention centers days before a delegation from the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) was to pay a visit to Turkey in order to...
Purge-victim Turkish engineer banned from public service until the year 3025
This 80-year-old couple in the 100th day of their arrest on terror charges
Imprisoned Turkish man “dies of heart attack” a day before his release from prison
Imprisoned Kurdish politician dies of heart attack in Turkish prison
Turkish man with 96 percent disability dies of heart attack 10 days short of being released from prison
Wife of purge-victim Turkish businessman sent to prison in Gaziantep
Purge-victim Turkish judge dies of cancer
HDP deputy reports another suspicious death in Turkish prison