A former Turkish ambassador, Erdoğan İşcan, was elected as a member of the UN Committee against Torture in a voting at the United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland on Thursday, Turkish media reports said.
İşcan, nominated by Turkey, secured the post getting 83 votes out of 151 countries that cast votes, in the first round of the voting at the 17th meeting of States to elect members to replace five current members whose terms expire on Dec. 31, 2019.
The other four members were elected from Mexico, Latvia, France, and Moldova.
The Committee against Torture is composed of 10 independent members who are elected for four-year tenure.
İşcan, who will begin his post on Jan.1, 2020, will be the first such Turkish official representing the country in the committee.
The former ambassador’s election to the UN Committee against Torture comes at a time when the Turkish government is being heavily criticized due to alleged acts of torture and maltreatment in Turkey’s prisons and detention centers particularly after a failed coup attempt in July 2016.
In a report in January 2019, rights organization the Human Rights Watch said it finds continued allegations of torture, ill treatment and cruel and inhuman or degrading treatment in police custody and prison and the lack of any meaningful investigation into them to be a source of “deep concern.”
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from Turkish Minute https://www.turkishminute.com/2019/10/04/former-turkish-ambassador-elected-as-member-to-un-committee-against-torture/
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