Criminal complaint against police torture in Batman

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Diyarbakır Bar Association Human Rights Centre’s Anti-Torture Commission filed a criminal complaint against the police officers who attacked the people in Batman.

  • ANF
  • AMED
  • Tuesday, 5 November 2024, 16:57

Lawyers Bawer Mızrak and Serhat Kayaoğlu, members of Diyarbakır Bar Association Human Rights Centre’s Anti-Torture Commission, filed a criminal complaint against the police violence against the participants of the protests against the usurpation of DEM Party municipality in Batman.

In the criminal complaint filed to Batman Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office, the police officers were charged with ‘obstructing constitutional freedoms and public duty’, ‘abuse of office’, ‘torture and ill-treatment and injury’, ‘deprivation of liberty’.

The criminal complaint drew attention to the articles of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), to which Turkey is a party, and the Constitution’s articles on freedom of expression, the right to assembly and demonstration and prohibition of torture, and referred to the decisions of the Turkish Constitutional Court (AYM) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR).

In the criminal complaint, images of police attacks on people were presented as evidence.

Source: ANF News

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