"October 2017"--Table of contents page. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Abductions, Missing Persons and Enforced Disappearances. Torture and ill-treatment -- Abductions and Enforced Disappearances -- Constraints on Lawyers -- Recommendations: To the Turkish Government -- To the Union of Turkish Bars and provincial bar associations -- To Turkey's International Partners -- Methodology -- IV. A Background of Impunity and Weak Safeguards: Constraints on Defense Lawyers -- II. Torture Cases: Cases Based on Interviews with Relatives of Victims and Court Records -- Cases of Torture Based on Information Received from Lawyers -- III. Lack of Effective Investigation of Torture Allegations: IV. Abductions, Missing Persons and Enforced Disappearances.
Summary:
"This report details credible evidence of 11 cases of serious abuse in detention, involving scores of individuals, all but one within the past seven months. The findings are based on interviews with lawyers and relatives, and a review of court transcripts, including allegations that police severely beat and threatened detainees, stripped them naked, and in some cases threatened them with sexual assault or sexually assaulted them. Human Rights Watch documented five cases of abductions in Ankara and Izmir between March and June 2017 that could amount to enforced disappearances--cases in which the authorities take a person into custody but deny it or refuse to provide information about the person's whereabouts"--Publisher's description.
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