ELCI AND OTHERS v. TURKEY JUDGMENT 79 lawyers, which had been written by the interrogators and which she had been forced to sign. 13. The indictment issued on 22 December 1993 against the applicants 534. The indictment dated 22 December 1993 and drawn up by Prosecutor Ünal Haney first listed 19 defendants (excluding MM. Tur and Çem), and then proceeded to elaborate the alleged offences of a total of 23 defendants, including all the applicants. It gave the following dates as regards the applicants' custody and formal arrest: Tahir Elçi İmam Şahin Arzu Şahin Nevzat Kaya Şinasi Tur Sabahattin Acar Niyazi Çem Mehmet Selim Kurbanoğlu Meral Daniş Beştaş Mesut Beştaş Vedat Erten Baki Demırhan Mehmet Arif Altinkalem Gazanfer Abbasioğlu Fuat Hayri Demır Hüsniye Ölmez 1 Date of being taken Date of formal arrest into custody “fa”1; with or without a mention of remand in custody - “ric”; or the date when an arrest warrant2 was issued “aw” 23.11.93 fa 10.12.93 (ric) 07.12.93 fa 21.12.93 (ric) 07.12.93 fa 21.12.93 (ric) 18.11.93 15.11.93 15.11.93 fa 10.12.93 (ric) 23.11.93 19.11.933 aw 14.12.93; fa 20.12.93 (ric) 16.11.93 aw 14(20??).12.93; 16.11.93 aw 14.12.93; fa 15.12.93 (ric) 23.11.93 aw 14.12.93; fa 15.12.93 (ric) 16.11.93 - 10.12.93 16.11.93 aw 14.12.93 30.11.93 03.12.93 - 10.12.93 16.11.93 aw 14(20??).12.93 fa 10.12.93 (ric) The Government stated that this was the date of detention/remand after appearing before a judge. 2 The Government stated that this was date of the decision of detention / remand in absentia 3 20 November 1993 according to the applicant and the custody records (cf. paragraph 495 above)