ELCI AND OTHERS v. TURKEY JUDGMENT 14 Security Court around 12.30 p.m. One or two days later he was taken for interrogation and accused of being a courier for the PKK between prisons, and of assisting and harbouring the PKK. Someone calling himself Mr Güven was apparently present and urged the applicant to confess like him. He denied these allegations. Under threat of torture, he signed certain documents, the contents of which were unknown to him, as he was blindfolded. He was released on 10 December 1993. (For further details see the summary of his oral evidence and the summaries of his statements, §§ 262-278 and 424-442 below.) 15. The case of Hüsniye Ölmez 69. On 16 November 1993 the applicant was apprehended by gendarmes from the Diyarbakır provincial gendarmerie command. She alleged that she was made to strip naked and tortured with beatings and cold water dousing during her detention. She was constantly threatened and forced to sign some papers, the contents of which she did not see as she was blindfolded, with her hand being held. She was remanded in custody on 10 December 1993 and released by the State Security Court on 17 February 1994. (Ms Ölmez did not appear before the Commission Delegates, but further details were given by some of her colleagues; see the summary of the evidence - §§ 31, 47 and 60 above and §§ 96, 141, 153, 166, 197, 228, 254 below; see also §§ 287, 505-506, 521, 539 and 548 below). B. The Government's original submissions on the facts 70. Following incriminating statements made by Abdülhakim Güven, who was on trial for his active membership of the PKK terrorist organisation, an investigation was instigated against the applicants. He alleged that the applicants had aided and abetted the organisation in various ways. (For further details see the summary of his statements to the gendarmerie and the Diyarbakır State Security Court below, §§ 424-442.) 71. The periods of custody with the gendarmerie or police and the periods of detention on remand after a judicial decision in relation to the applicants were as follows: Tahir Elçi İmam Şahin Arzu Şahin Nevzat Kaya Şinasi Tur Sabahattin Acar Periods of detention in Periods of detention the custody of ordered by a judge gendarmes / police 23.11.93 - 10.12.93 10.12.93 - 17.02.94 07.12.93 - 21.12.93 21.12.93 - 17.02.94 07.12.93 - 21.12.93 21.12.93 - 17.02.94 18.11.93 - 10.12.93 15.11.93 - 10.12.93 15.11.93 - 10.12.93