Earthquake today

Law enforcement officials sent to police the region devastated by Turkey's February 6, 2023 earthquakes have beaten, tortured, and otherwise ill-treated ...

U., 28, said that he and a group of 11 friends had traveled from the nearby town of Reyhanlı to Antakya to help with search and rescue on the day of the earthquakes. The men were taken to a place near Prime Mall in Antakya, made to hand over their phones and then instructed to open them with the pin numbers to prove they were the actual owners. was the first to leave the building and was beaten, while the police officers inside the building pulled C.T. have medical reports documenting their injuries and on February 12 lodged a formal complaint with the police and prosecutor’s office in Ürgüp, Nevşehir, where they subsequently went to stay with relatives. One police officer ran an ID check on him, accused him of being a thief with a criminal record, and punched him on the left side of his face below his brow, knocking him down. They were held in a place that resembled a storage room instead of a cell, where up to10 gendarmes hosed them down with water and beat them for a prolonged period, stripped them naked, squeezed their testicles, and attempted anal rape of the men with batons. On March 29, the human rights directorate of the Ministry of Justice responded in the name of both the Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Interior. A February 12 autopsy with the prosecutor present found an injury to the brain that might have caused his death and multiple bruises on his body. In the other seven cases, victims said they would not lodge official complaints because they were afraid of reprisals and because they felt the chance of obtaining justice was remote. From February 10 onwards, video footage of people wearing police, gendarme, and military clothing beating people in locations that resembled the earthquake area began to circulate on social media. We will kill you and bury you under the rubble.” One Syrian man said that a police superintendent to whom he complained when an officer punched him in the face told him “There’s a state of emergency here. “Law enforcement officials are treating the state of emergency for the natural disaster as a license to torture, otherwise ill-treat and even kill with impunity.”