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The sixty suspects included gendarmerie, police and prison officials, the agency said, adding the 24-page document was sent to the court.

Engin Ceber, 29, died in hospital from a brain hemorrhage last month, after he was detained in September while protesting that police officers have not been brought to justice for allegedly shooting and paralyzing a youth selling a left-wing publication last year.

Human rights groups say he was severely beaten by officers while in custody.

Nineteen prison officials have been already suspended over the incident and six of them were arrested in October.

European Union officials and Turkish human rights activists charge that cases of torture are on the rise again in Turkey in recent years after a notable decline in the early 2000s


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