Turkey police torture detainees under post-coup emergency: HRW

ISTANBUL: Human Rights Watch on Tuesday said Turkey´s state of emergency amounted to giving "a blank cheque" for police to torture, abuse or threaten people detained after the failed coup. The US-based watchdog cited 13 cases of alleged abuse, including torture, sleep deprivation, severe beatings, sexual abuse and rape threats among people arrested after the July 15 attempted putsch.

Its report detailed several examples of detainees with bruises and marks on their body and said some lawyers were too scared to record evidence that their clients had been tortured.