Two policemen who beat a university student in Istanbul in 2009 for drinking alcohol on the street have been convicted of torture and given 13 years and four months imprisonment in total.
This is the first verdict where a Turkish court has defined police violence that occurred in a public space as torture, said Efkan Bolaç, the plantiff’s lawyer.
“This verdict will lead to a serious precedent for the Turkish judicial system. Even one of the judges opposed the sentence, saying the imprisonment should have been 15 years not six years for each officer,” Bolaç told the Hürriyet Daily News yesterday in a phone interview.
Policemen convicted for torture in public in Turkey
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