by TurkeyPurge | Feb 27, 2018 | Int'l Reactions
The UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer said in a written statement on Feb 27 that he was alarmed by allegations that large numbers of individuals were exposed to brutal interrogation techniques in Turkish custodies. The allegations of torture and other...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 13, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
People detained after the last year’s failed putsch have been subject to torture in police custody while several others were abducted outside detention facilities, according to a recent report by the Human Rights Watch (HRW). The New York-based watchdog documented...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 7, 2017 | Int'l Reactions
The torture, ill-treatment, abusive, inhumane and degrading treatment of people who are deprived of their liberties in Turkey’s detention centers and prisons has become the norm rather than the exception under increased nationalistic euphoria and religious zealotry in...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 6, 2016 | Human Rights Abuses, Torture
“Political [prisoners] are being subjected to torture,” said a man under arrest, in an obvious cry for help, as he was being forced into a police car after a medical checkup in Manisa province. With allegations of ill-treatment of Turkey’s post-coup prisoners becoming...
by TurkeyPurge | Oct 2, 2016 | Torture
Allegations of severe overcrowding in Turkey’s post-coup prisons have proven to be true with a recently-arrested lawyer complaining about lack of space in holding cells in an anonymous letter. Ten arrestees are being held in a custody cell as small as 16 square...
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Purge-victim police officer dies of cancer 9 days after release from prison
Turkey jails Kurdish journalist on terror charges
U.S. Congressman says İnandı’s abduction “a crime against humanity, democracy”
Hundreds in Bishkek call on Kyrgyz authorities to locate missing educator
63-year-old man placed in solitary confinement due to Covid-19
Turkish journalist released on probation after five years in prison
UN Human Rights Committee calls on authorities to locate missing Kyrgyz educator
Imprisoned military cadet denied permission to attend parents’ funeral
Turkish appeals court upholds 9-year jail sentence for cancer patient