Turkey’s top court finds rights violations in death of teacher in custody, notifies wife 9 months later

Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruled last year that Turkish authorities violated the right to life and the prohibition of torture and ill-treatment in the case of teacher Gökhan Açıkkollu, who died in police custody in 2016 after being detained over alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, with the court notifying his wife nine months after […] The post Turkey’s top court finds rights violations in death of teacher in custody, notifies wife 9 months later appeared first on Stockholm Ce...

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