Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that prison officials subjected dismissed prosecutor Hasan Dursun to treatment incompatible with human dignity by using force that authorities failed to show was necessary during an attempt to cut his hair and that prosecutors failed to effectively investigate the incident, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported. The Constitutional Court issued […] The post Turkey’s top court finds rights violations in prison officials’ treatment of dismissed prosecutor appeared first on Turkish Minute.
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Turkey’s Constitutional Court has ruled that prison officials subjected dismissed prosecutor Hasan Dursun to treatment incompatible with human dignity by using force that authorities failed to show was necessary during an attempt to cut his hair and that prosecutors failed to effectively investigate the incident, the Stockholm Center for Freedom reported.
The Constitutional Court issued the ruling on February 19, with its reasoned decision published in the Official Gazette on October 6.
The court found violations of Article 17 of the Turkish Constitution, which protects a person’s physical and…
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