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Amnesty says Turkey coup detainees being tortured
[DAWN] Human rights group ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... 's July 15 coup. The London-based group claimed some of those being held were being "subjected to beatings and torture, including rape, in official and unofficial detention centres in the country". In Turkey, a bigwig denied Amnesty's claims and vowed that Turkey would uphold human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... . "The idea that Turkey, a country seeking European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... membership, would not respect the law is absurd," the official said. "We categorically deny the allegations and encourage advocacy groups to provide an unbiased account of the legal steps that are being taken against people who murdered nearly 250 civilians in cold blood." Posted by: Fred 2016-07-25 |
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