More than the 10,000 people that were detained after the July 15 failed coup attempt by parts of Turkey's military were reported to have been beaten and tortured in official and unofficial holding
centers in Istanbul and Ankara.
Someof the Detainees awaiting trial were raped by police, others were beaten and some others were denied food and water and access to lawyers for days. The group cites interviews with detainees' lawyers, doctors and a person who was on duty at one of the centers in Ankara.
"The grim details that we have documented are just a snapshot of the abuses that might be happening in places of detention," John Dalhuisen, Amnesty International's Europe director, said in a statement Sunday.
Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag denied the allegations, accusing Amnesty's sources of lying and being part of the movement behind the coup attempt.
More than 10,000 people have been detained, Amnesty International said. More than 9,000 were soldiers, though 1,200 troops have been released, the government said.
Detainees claim they saw police officers raping senior military officers with batons or fingers, according to two lawyers in Ankara. Detainees were brought before prosecutors for interrogation with their shirts covered in blood, lawyers said.
A person who'd been on duty at the Ankara police headquarters claimed to have seen a severely beaten detainee who lost consciousness with large swelling on his head. Police allegedly denied that detainee medical treatment. "Let him die. We will say he came to us dead," the witness quoted a police doctor as saying.
Source: CNN
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