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Mustafa Koçak (left) and (right) his lawyer Ezgi Çakir
LAWYERS for “political prisoner” Mustafa Kocak demanded his immediate release today after he showed signs of being subjected to shocking levels of torture and rape by Turkish intelligence officials.
Ezgi Cakir of the People’s Law Office visited Mr Kocak in the high-security Kiriklar F-Type prison in the west coast city of Izmir today.
Speaking in a video message filmed outside the jail, she said that her client showed signs of beating and torture, with his veins bursting as a result of his treatment at the hands of security officials.
Newly revealed documents reveal that MI5 taught Brazilian secret police the techniques deployed by the 1964-85 military dictatorship in horrific prisons like Rio de Janeiro’s House of Death. SARA VIVACQUA reports
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
