İSTANBUL - Lawyer Murat Çelik, who was exposed to police violence during the Saturday Mothers' protest, filed a criminal complaint with the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office.

 

Lawyer Murat Çelik, who was attacked by the police during the Saturday Mothers' protest in Galatasaray Square in the 954th week, filed a criminal complaint with the Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor's Office on charges of "torture, deliberate injury, insult and threat".

 

In the criminal complaint, it was demanded that an investigation be initiated against the chiefs and policemen who committed these crimes, that the legal process should be run first for their dismissal from their duties and that a public lawsuit should be filed against them on these allegations of crime.

 

THE STATEMENT FROM LEGAL ORGANIZATIONS

 

Regarding the violence against Çelik, Lawyers for Justice, Lawyer Solidarity, Lawyer Movement, Lawyers' Union, Contemporary Lawyers Group, Contemporary Lawyers Association (ÇHD) Istanbul Branch, Lawyers for Democracy, Participating Lawyers, Lawyers for Freedom Association (ÖHD) Istanbul Branch, Libertarian Democrat Lawyers, Social Law and Society and Legal Studies Foundation made a written statement.

 

'WE WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT'

 

In the statement, it was stated that the lawyers were aware of the attacks of the political power on defense and that the attacks increased and the law enforcement was encouraged by the impunity policy of the political power. The statement included the following statements: "We know that the police violence that hundreds of people are exposed to, who take to the streets with demands for democratic rights every day, is covered up by the judiciary. We will follow up to the end the violence against Lawyer Murat Çelik, the Saturday Mothers' struggle for rights, which is blocked every week, and the violence suffered by everyone on the street with their democratic demands. We will not allow attacks on defense and torture to be acquitted by the judiciary, and we will continue to fight torture in every field we are in."