by TurkeyPurge | Aug 20, 2018 | Human Tragedies, Torture
Turkish journalist Cevheri Guven has claimed in a video footage that post-coup detainees are being taken to a specially-equipped building in Ankara where they are subject to torture . In a recent video recording published by the online news portal Bold Medya, Guven...
by TurkeyPurge | Feb 4, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
Two women were detained by police while they were protesting torture and maltreatment against their relatives in prison, in Istanbul’s Taksim square. Evrensel daily said C.T. and S.A., two Association of Families of Convicts and Detainees (TAYAD) members, were...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 27, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
A new state of emergency decree that stipulates all convicts and suspects under arrest for alleged crimes against the constitutional order in Turkey wear jumpsuits identifying their supposed crime will cover about 60,000 people in prisons, the pro-government Yeni...
by TurkeyPurge | Dec 24, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
People who were imprisoned over “offenses against Constitutional order” are now required to wear dusty orange and gray jumpsuits, according to the government’s latest post-coup decree, issued early Sunday. “Those behind bars who were convicted of offences against the...
by TurkeyPurge | Sep 30, 2017 | Today in Crackdown
Two inmates in Ankara’s Sincan prison have been forced to wear orange T-shirts along with loose trousers during meetings with their lawyer, according to media. Speaking to toplumsalhukuk.net online forum on Friday, an anonymous lawyer said his/her clients were forced...