alarming findings of the report<\/a><\/span><\/strong> [\u2026] is how Turkish authorities reportedly detained some 100 women who were pregnant or had just given birth, mostly on the grounds that they were \u2018associates\u2019 of their husbands, who are suspected of being connected to terrorist organizations,\u201d said Zeid Ra\u2019ad Al Hussein, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a news release announcing the findings.<\/p>\n[contextly_sidebar id=”K8CnaZyNmrGnV6Ygj1TMc9AgFxO4HoRH”]\u201cSome were detained with their children and others violently separated from them. This is simply outrageous, utterly cruel, and surely cannot have anything whatsoever to do with making the country safer,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
While taking note of the complex challenges Turkey has faced in addressing the attempted coup in July 2016, as well as a number of terrorist attacks, the report cites that the sheer number, frequency and lack of connection of several emergency decrees to any national threat seem to point to the use of emergency powers to stifle any form of criticism or dissent vis-\u00e0-vis the Government.<\/p>\n
During the 18-month state of emergency, nearly 160,000 people have been arrested; 152,000 civil servants dismissed, many arbitrarily; and teachers, judges and lawyers dismissed or prosecuted.<\/p>\n
The report also documents the use of torture and ill-treatment in custody, including severe beatings, threats of sexual assault and actual sexual assault, electric shocks and waterboarding by police, gendarmerie, military police and security forces.<\/p>\n
It also notes that about 300 journalists have been arrested under allegations that their publications contained \u201capologist sentiments regarding terrorism\u201d or other \u201cverbal act offences\u201d or for \u201cmembership\u201d in terrorist organisations.<\/p>\n
Over 100,000 websites were reportedly blocked in 2017, including a high number of pro-Kurdish websites and satellite TV channels.<\/p>\n
Covering the period January to December last year, the report also states that the April 2017 referendum which extended the President\u2019s executive powers into both the legislature and the judiciary as seriously problematic, resulting in interference with the work of the judiciary and curtailment of parliamentary oversight over the executive branch.<\/p>\n
By the end of 2017, 22 emergency decrees were promulgated with a further two more since the cut-off date of the report.<\/p>\n
The report further underlines the need ensure independent, individualized reviews and compensation for victims of arbitrary detentions and dismissals and calls on Turkey to promptly end the state of emergency, restore normal functioning of State institutions, as well as revise and release all legislation not compliant with its international human rights obligations, including the emergency decrees.<\/p>\n
\u201cI urge the Government of Turkey to ensure that these allegations of serious human rights violations are investigated and the perpetrators are brought to justice,\u201d said Mr. Zeid, also calling on the Government to allow full and unfettered access to his Office (OHCHR) to be able to directly, independently and objectively assess the human rights situation in the southeast of the country.
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