ASSEDEL Research has submitted the Ill-Treatment and Torture Report to CoE-CPT

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International and Turkish jurisprudences strictly forbid ill-treatment and torture. However, the details told by those who were tortured show the severity of the disconnection between theory and reality. The narrations of victims were quite detailed and could long several hundred pages. ASSEDEL Research has submitted the Ill-Treatment and Torture Report to inform the CPT Turkey Group about torture and ill-treatment that has been systematically continuing since 2016 in Turkey.

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