by TurkeyPurge | Sep 10, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
The New York-based Journalists and Writers Foundation (JWF) released a new report titled “Death in Custody: Right to Life in Turkish Prisons” expressing concerns over the increasing number of suspicious deaths in custody since an attempted coup on July 15, 2016 in...
by TurkeyPurge | Nov 6, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
An imprisoned mum-to-be has passed away along with his unborn baby as the woman was denied on-time access to hospital, according to a tip-off shared by the rights advocate Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu on Nov 5. “I have been released only after 11 months [in prison] now. I...
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