‘Winds of change’ stop blowing for Turkish Cypriots
By Simon Bahceli Published on February 10, 2013
JUST over a year ago, a Turkish Cypriot cross-party ‘parliamentary’ committee concluded an investigation into whether police in the north used torture in their prisons and police stations.
The investigation had come after a spate of shocking reports in the Turkish Cypriot media claiming police were torturing suspects and convicts with apparent impunity. Blood-curdling stories had made their way into the press, highlighting such methods as the use of electric shocks, beatings with the notorious falaka, sexual abuse and humiliation, and even rape. These methods had been used, the stories said, either to extract confessions or to dish out extra-judiciary punishment to prisoners and suspects.
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