Engin Çeber

Engin ceber ( born May 5, 1979 † October 8, 2008 in Istanbul) was a Turkish Left activist who died as a result of torture and ill-treatment in prison.

The Çebers family comes from Bingöl and moved in 1965 to Istanbul. Engin ceber had three siblings and visited the school to middle school. Later he worked in the textile industry and was then unemployed. Ceber was chairman of Temel Haklar ve Özgürlükler Derneği ( "Association for fundamental rights and freedoms "). In 2004, he was arrested the first time for three months. On 7 December 2006 he was again in prison, but was acquitted on 2 September 2007.

Engin ceber was subjected to a security check on September 28, the sale of the magazine yürüyüş from the environment of DHKP / C and then arrested with several others for alleged resistance to state violence. He spent the first night in the police station İstinye and was medically examined. The next day he was introduced in the State Hospital İstinye and at the insistence of lawyers in Etfal Hospital in Şişli. Ceber complained of a headache. In the documented medical examinations swelling in forehead and temples were found. The investigating judge issued an arrest warrant and ceber was placed in the detention center Metris cezaevi in Istanbul. There he was abused in the admission procedure and the next morning and evening, because he could not seem to appeal, abused more times. The chronological sequence was recorded with surveillance cameras that were later evaluated by the court. A conversation with the lawyers led ceber still on October 6 and talked about his poor health. On October 7, his condition deteriorated rapidly and ceber spent in the infirmary and then in the hospital. On October 8, ceber died from the effects of a brain hemorrhage.

An Istanbul court sentenced the three offenders to life imprisonment. Tough penalties against public servants are rare in Turkey.

The state paid TL 36,270 to the family as compensation for the death Çebers. Amnesty International described the case as a landmark verdict, since the prison had been convicted of Folters. The then Turkish Justice Minister Mehmet Ali Şahin apologized to the family for the death by torture and dismissed 19 employees of the detention center.

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