Alwaght- Amnesty International gathered Evidences that shows detainees of abortive military coup in Turkey are suffering serious consequences including tortures and rape as well as deprivation of contacts with family and lawyers.
Detainees arrested over alleged links to the foiled coup attempt are being arbitrarily held and subjected to beatings and torture, including rape, in official and unofficial detention centers in the country. Even the credible evidence states some are kept in informal detention places such as sports centers and stables.
Some detainees, including at least three judges, were held in the corridors of courthouses.
“Reports of abuse including beatings and rape in detention are extremely alarming, especially given the scale of detentions that we have seen in the past week. The grim details that we have documented are just a snapshot of the abuses that might be happening in places of detention,” said AI’s Europe director John Dalhuisen.
It also emphasized that independent monitors must be allowed to access detainees amid torture allegations and called on the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) to conduct an emergency visit to Turkey to monitor conditions of detention.
Amnesty International urged Turkish authorities to halt these abhorrent practices and allow international monitors to visit all these detainees in the places they are being held.
Following a failed coup attempt on July 15, Turkey launched a massive crackdown on the alleged coup supporters. It also introduced a state of emergency on Wednesday, which, according to the deputy prime minister, means a temporary suspension of the European Convention on Human Rights.
In total, 13,165 people have been detained for alleged involvement in the foiled coup attempt in Turkey that occurred on Friday July 15, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
