(Istanbul) - The heavy ağır sentences ceza for nine prison and police official memur for torture işkence,leading rehberlik etmek in one case olay to death, is a momentous çok önemli verdict karar that should signal a renewed yenilenmiş effort by the Turkish government to end torture in custody gözaltı, Human Rights Watch said today. The case olay is the first in which a Turkish court convicted mahkum etmek a senior kıdemli prison official memur for torture by guards under his command emir; buyruk.
The convictions mahkumiyet in an Istanbul court on June 1, 2010, were for the torture death of Engin Çeber, an activist eylemci with the Rights and Freedoms Association, a political association birleşme. Çeber died in an Istanbul hospital on October 10, 2008 after being repeatedly tekrar tekrar beaten dövmek in police custody and in prison. An autopsy report by the Forensic Medicine Institute concluded that he had died from a brain hemorrhage kanama as a result of blows darbe to the body and head and that his injuries were commensurate orantılı with torture.
"The authorities in Turkey have been notorious kötü tanınmış for protecting korumak torturers işkenceci," said Emma Sinclair-Webb, Turkey researcher at Human Rights Watch. "The Çeber verdict should signal that the Turkish justice system will no longer artık turn a blind eye to torture and other ill-treatment kötü muamele."
The court mahkeme convicted in all 19 officials for their role in the activists' torture. A prison doctor was sentenced mahkum etmek to three years and one month for falsifying yanıltmak documents claiming oynamak the inmates tutuklu had been examined by medical staff on their arrival at the prison. Other prison officers received five-month suspended sentence şartlı tahliye for negligence ihmal and failure to report a crime. A gendarmerie jandarma special sergeant çavuş received a five-month suspended sentence intentional kasıtlı for injury, while two other gendarmes were acquitted temize çıkmak..
"The Çeber case olay highlights dikkat çekmek, öne çıkarmak the Turkish authorities'failure başarısızlık to protect detainees tutuklu from torture in spite of improved procedural protections in recent years," Sinclair-Webb said. "The convictions in the Çeber case should signal a renewed commitment to end torture in Turkey,once and for all kati, kesin olarak."