Page 179 - America's Failure to Perceive the PKK

The problem of torture, the limitation of individual rights and free-
doms, the malfunctioning of the legal system is in the foreground in
almost every line.

Representatives of Human Rights Watch, who met some crimi-
nals in prisons, stated that these people in prisons were there without
a legal warrant of arrest; they were denied access to a lawyer and
were held in detention without being brought to trial. The people
detained were subjected to constant beatings in jail by the authorities.

It has been understood that such arrests are generally based only on
slanders and the confessions by the detainees were made under
duress. Almost every opposing voice is being silenced. There are a lot
of suspicious casualty cases during custody.

The Kurdish
people of Syria fled
to Turkey to
escape
persecution by the
PYD long before
Assad's attacks.

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