13 July 2012 Daily Human Rights Report
(07/112) Explosion in Ağrı Province…
Ertan Dilaver (14) was killed and Adem Yiğit (12) was wounded in the explosion as they were pasturing their herd in the vicinity of Kızılkaya Village of Doğubayazıt District of Ağrı Province on 12 July 2012.
(07/113) Operations and clashes in South-east…
Three soldiers were wounded with the explosion of a mine in the vicinity of Umutlu Village between Elbistan and Nurhak Districts of Kahramanmaraş Province on 12 July 2012.
(07/114) Extra-judicial killing attempt in Şanlıurfa Province…
Two cigarette smugglers H.B. (22) and M.Y. (17) were wounded with the fire of the gendarmerie soldiers as they were crossing the border between Syria and Turkey from Akçakale District of Şanlıurfa Province on 12 July 2012.
(07/115) Excessive use of force by law enforcement officers…
A reader of the Red Flag Magazine (Kızıl Bayrak Dergisi) was beaten and detained in an ID check in Antakya Province on 11 July 2012.
(07/116) Coercion in prison…
Ömer Çiftçi, the former owner of the Democratic Modernity Journal (Demokratik Modernite Dergisi) and a pre-trial detainee in Kandıra (Kocaeli) F Closed Prison No. 2, could not receive the journal on the grounds that it is “inappropriate”, reported on 12 July 2012.
(07/117) Coercion in prison…
Lawyers Mazlum Dinç, Rezan Sarıca, Ayşe Acinikli and Hüseyin Boğatekin were not allowed to visit their client Abdullah Öcalan on 12 July 2012 on grounds that the ship that would carry them to İmralı Island was out of order.
(07/118) Intervention to the protest in İstanbul Province…
Municipal police and police teams interfered the sit-in strike attempts of the People’s Front (Halk Cephesi) to protest the abolition of the houses as a part of the “urban transformation” by İstanbul Metropolitan Municipality in front of the building of the municipality again on 12 July 2012. Four people were detained.
(07/119) Home raids in Mersin Province…
Five people were detained in synchronised home raids in Mersin Province on 12 July 2012.
