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  • Amnesty International Slams Turkey For 'Brutal' Gezi Park Protest Ab

    AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL SLAMS TURKEY FOR 'BRUTAL' GEZI PARK PROTEST ABUSE

    15:39 ~U 02.10.13

    Turkish authorities committed human rights abuses "on a massive scale"
    while trying to quell anti-government protests over the summer,
    Amnesty International has found.

    BBC News has citied the group as saying that live ammunition was used,
    killing one protester, while some women protesters were sexually
    abused.

    It has claimed that other demonstrators were badly beaten, resulting
    in one death.

    The unrest began in May as a protest to stop the redevelopment of
    Istanbul's Taksim Square and Gezi Park.

    But after a harsh crackdown by riot police, it snowballed into
    nationwide anti-government demonstrations that lasted for weeks.

    Amnesty International's report has said that investigators interviewed
    scores of people who were injured, unlawfully detained, beaten or
    sexually assaulted during detention.

    Andrew Gardner, Amnesty International's expert on Turkey, said: "The
    attempt to smash the Gezi Park protest movement involved a string of
    human rights violations on a huge scale.

    "They include the wholesale denial of the right to peaceful assembly
    and violations of the rights to life, liberty and the freedom from
    torture and ill-treatment."

    Armenian News - Tert.am

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