Human Rights Association (IHD) head office has released a report on the violations of rights witnessed during Gezi Park protests across the country from 27 May to 24 June.

According to the report, 7681 people were wounded, five killed and 2841 detained and among them 70 were remanded in custody as a result of police interventions in the protests.

Speaking at the press conference IHD held for the release of the report, IHD Chairperson Öztürk Türkdoğan strongly criticized the release of the police officer who shot protestor Ethem Sarısülük on the head using a rubber bullet in capital Ankara on 1 June. Türkdoğan commented the court's decision as unacceptable.

The report by IHD, read by Türkdoğan, included the figures compiled by Turkish Doctors' Union (TTB), according to which four people were killed and 7832 others were wounded in protests in 13 cities by 20 June.

The report listed the figures by TTB as follows;

* Istanbul: 4478 wounded, 21 severely. One person died, four are still in critical situation. Six people suffered head trauma, six lost their sight.

* Ankara: 1539 wounded, 21 severely. One person died, seven suffered head trauma, four lost their sight.

* İzmir: 800 wounded, two severely.

* Antakya: One person died, 162 wounded, six severely, five suffered head trauma

* Eskişehir: 300 people wounded, among them two are held in intensive care unit and three in critical situation.

* Adana: One person died, 162 wounded, six severely. Five suffered head trauma

* Muğla: 50 wounded, one severely

* Mersin: 17 wounded, one severely

* Bursa: Two wounded, one suffered head trauma

* Balıkesir:155 wounded

* Kocaeli:10 wounded

* Antalya:150 wounded, one severely

* Rize: Eight wounded

* A total of 7681 people wounded, 63 severely, and four dead

The report pointed out that police used pressure water not only to disperse the protestors but also to injure them. It remarked that police also added chemical inside the pressure water used during protests, leading to chemical burns on protestors' bodies.

The report said police also used expired tear gas against protestors, and that more then 150 thousand tear gas canisters were used during protests.

IHD report said police used firearms as well against protestors, remarking that the worst incident with firearms was that suffered by worker Ethem Sarısülük whose brain death was declared twelve days after he was hit on the head with a rubber bullet, as is also seen on a video shot at the scene. IHD said security officials denied permission for Sarısülük's funeral ceremony to take place at the central Kızılay Square on 15 June, dispersing the people joining the ceremony with pressure water and tear gas.

The report said five people, including one police officer, lost their life in protests and added the following details about the deaths;

"Mehmet Ayvalıtaş died on 2 June after he was hit by a car that drove on TEM highway didn't stop despite all warnings by the protestors who had gathered in the neigborhood of 1 Mayıs in Istanbul's Ümraniye district. Abdullah Cömert (22) died in Antakya Public Hospital after he was wounded with a rubber bullet on the head in Hatay's Armutlu district on 3 June. İrfan Tuna (47) who was working on the night shift at a private teaching institution in in the central Kızılay Square died of heart attack on 5 June after he was subjected to intense tear gas police used in the Square on Wednesday. Police commissioner Mustafa Sarı died on 5 June after he fell down a subway bridge, five meters in height, while chasing protestors in Adana. Ethem Sarısülük (26) was hit on the head during protest demonstrations in Ankara on 1 June. He was declared brain dead on 13 June".

IHD said journalists were also subjected to police violence while covering protests and demanded the imeediate ending of the excessive use of police force and violence against protestors, urgent release of all those who were detained for only exercising their right of peaceful assembly, initiation of an independent and efficient inquiry into the cases of violence and the legal process against those responsible for all the happenings.

The report listed the following figures as to the detentions and arrests compiled by branches of the IHD, bar associations and doctors' unions.

Istanbul; 918 taken into custody, 33 arrested

Ankara; 973 taken into custody, 22 arrested

İzmir; 485 taken into custody, 13 arrested

Mersin; 485 taken into custody

Antakya; 76 taken into custody

Elazığ; 6 taken into custody

İskenderun; 4 taken into custody

Adana; 425 taken into custody

Eskişehir; 13 taken into custody

Kocaeli; 4 taken into custody, 2 arrested

Urfa; 1 taken into custody

A total of 2841 people detained, 66 still remanded in custody, and 70 arrested