"Turkey: To Combat Torture, Monitoring Police Stations Is Key
06 Mar 2006 17:22:25 GMT
Source: Human Rights Watch
(Brussels, March 6, 2006) – In Turkey's campaign efforts to eradicate torture, a new program in which provincial human rights bodies monitor local police stations can play a critical safeguard role, but this monitoring needs to be independent and more widespread, Human Rights Watch said today in a report published ahead of the European Union's foreign ministerial troika meeting with Turkey on March 8. Since early 2005, a countrywide network of provincial human rights boards operating under the prime minister's office has begun to pay both announced and unannounced visits to local police and gendarme stations to ensure that they have implemented safeguards against the torture and ill-treatment of detainees. By late 2005, human rights boards in 31 of Turkey's 81 provinces had carried out visits to police or gendarme stations."
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