Inmate dies from COVID-19 at İstanbul’s Silivri Prison: statement
The İstanbul Bakırköy Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office on Friday announced the death of an inmate at Silivri Prison from COVID-19, adding that the number...
Female officer raped in detention by Turkish police had to abort pregnancy: report
A female officer who had served in the Turkish army had to have an abortion after she was raped in police custody, Lt. Abdulvahap...
The Year in Review: Torture and Inhuman Treatment
Turkey has experienced a marked resurgence of torture and ill-treatment in custody over the past five years and especially since a coup attempt on...
Turkish interior minister visited mass torture site, personally witnessed abuse that continued after he...
Lt. Col. Tuncay Koçak, head of the organized crime unit at the Gendarmerie General Command, testified in court that he witnessed the visit of...
Opposition MP Gergerlioğlu calls on Bursa Bar to investigate mistreatment in police custody
Human rights defender and Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has called on the bar association of the western province of Bursa...
Ankara bar publishes 5 censored reports on torture, ill-treatment of alleged Gülenists
The Ankara Bar Association has published five reports by its human rights committee on allegations of torture made by detainees held at a police...
Opposition party vice chair acknowledges systematic torture of supporters of the Gülen movement
Ahmet Zeki Üçok, vice chair of the nationalist opposition İYİ (Good) Party, after a visit to two journalists who were recently imprisoned, said they...
Police fired plastic bullets during post-election protests in Kurdish city: report
The Van Bar Association, the Human Rights Association (İHD) and the Association for the Freedom of Lawyers (ÖHD) have prepared a joint report on...
Top forensic expert faces charges of ‘publicly insulting the Turkish state’ in controversial case
Şebnem Korur Fincancı, a human rights advocate and forensic medical expert, is facing charges for “publicly insulting the Turkish state,” the Media and Law...
Turkish top court strikes down suspended sentence mechanism, citing torture ban
Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that a court mechanism that allowed some convictions to be effectively suspended can no longer be used, striking down...
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