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Imprisoned journalist says tortured with cold water during detention

Imprisoned journalist says tortured with cold water during detention

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...
Turkey removes evidence of torture, maltreatment in prisons ahead of CPT visit

Turkey removes evidence of torture, maltreatment in prisons ahead of CPT visit

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...

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