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...
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