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Harassment in Custody - Transgender Halat Wins Her Case
Strasbourg - BİA News Center | 10 November 2011, Thursday
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EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
The European Court of Human rights convicted the Turkish government for failing to carry out an effective investigation in the case of transgender woman Halat who was harassed by a police officer. The Pink Live Association called on the government to counteract human rights violations of transgender persons.
In Wednesday's (8 November) judgment in the case of transgender woman Esma Halat the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) held "by five votes to two, that there had been: A violation of the procedural aspect of Article 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights. The case concerned allegations of ill-treatment in police custody".