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HRW: Turkish police strip detainees naked, beat them on testicles with baton

A lawyer reported to Human Rights Watch that five people were taken to a darkened room, stripped naked, beaten on their testicles with a...

Father says his arrested newspaper distributor son being beaten in prison

Prison guards have been beating Salih Elitaş, a distributor for the Azadiya Welat newspaper, which has been targeted by the government, along with other...

DW: Former arrestee still feels pain of torture whenever he uses toilet

Thirty-one-year-old K.U., who was tortured for 17 days in custody after he was detained on terrorism charges in late August, says his testicles were...

DW: Turkish teacher hospitalized after being beaten during interrogation

A teacher known only by the initials E.B., who was arrested as part of an investigation into the Gülen movement, was hospitalized after he...

Human Rights Watch: Turkey’s emergency decrees facilitate torture

US-based rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a report on Tuesday that Turkish police have tortured and otherwise ill-treated individuals in custody...

Justice minister: No maltreatment or torture in Turkish prisons

Contrary to what national and international human rights organizations have reported, Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdağ stated on Sunday that there is no maltreatment...

Turkey’s Human Rights Association: Turkish prisons at 120 percent capacity

Turkish human rights watchdog the Human Rights Association (İHD) said in a report on Friday that there are nearly 220,000 people in Turkey's prisons,...

Erdoğan to West: We know the rule of law as well as you do

In response to criticism of systematic human rights violations in Turkey as part of an ongoing post-coup-attempt purge, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan lashed...

Torture in prison renders Turkish professor unable to even count coins

Under arrest as part of an investigation into a July 15 coup attempt in Turkey, a Turkish professor has been rendered incapable of even...

Lawyer who questioned allegations of torture in İstanbul prison battered by guards

Günay Dağ, a lawyer representing 17-year-old H.İ., currently confined at İstanbul’s Maltepe juvenile facility, was battered by guards after he asked questions about the veracity...

Torture during detention renders head of educators union unable to walk

Under custody for his alleged links to the Gülen movement, the head of AKTIF SEN Educators Union’s Afyon branch has been tortured so heavily...

Lawyer says jailed women in İstanbul’s Silivri prison tortured with needle pricks

Guards in İstanbul’s Silivri prison pricked sewing needles to a female convict after she chanted slogans and refused to obey the management’s order to...

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