The Court of Appeal has upheld Ocalan's death sentence, although due to pressure by the EU it has not yet been implemented. Turkish security forces also abducted Cevat Soysal, another leading PKK member, from Moldova on July 13. Soysal says he was tortured during his detention. He described methods of torture including electro-shock torture, being suspended by the arms, being forced to lie naked on ice, being sprayed with pressurised water and not being allowed to sleep. He also reported being badly beaten and forced to swallow a drug, which made him tearful and subject to mood swings, weakened his resolve and forced him to relax.
Repression is directed against all opponents of the Turkish government.
Human rights defenders in Istanbul protesting the 10 deaths were badly beaten, threatened and verbally abused by police and detained. Kosovo, Serbia and the Balkan region AI's bulletin deals with the period immediately following the end of NATO's bombardment of Serbia and the entry of NATO troops in Kosovo. Serbian authorities have reportedly transferred up to 2,000 ethnic Albanians detained for political crimes to Serbian jails. The situation is no better in the other countries that made up the former Yugoslavia. In Croatia, the authorities continue to put up barriers to the return and reintegration of Croatian Serb refugees expelled or forced out during the Bosnian war.