Festus Okey

The family of Festus Okey, a Nigerian asylum seeker who had been murdered at Istanbul's Beyoğlu police station in 2007, will join the criminal proceedings after 13 years of a legal and bureaucratic struggle.

Okey was detained on Aug. 20, 2007 on charges of drug possession and was brought to the Beyoğlu police station. He was fatally shot by Yıldız after his interrogation.

The case on the murder of Nigerian refugee Festus Okey at Istanbul's Beyoğlu police station in 2017 has been reopened after 11 years, with activists and rights groups vowing to keep following the case.

A new investigation will be launched into the murder of Nigerian refugee Festus Okey, killed by an officer’s bullet during an interrogation at an Istanbul post, seven years after the fatal shooting that caused public outcry, a lawyer has said.

A 17-year-old Afghan refugee has died after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage following a police beating in the southeastern province of Van, in circumstances reminiscent of the killing of the Nigerian refugee Festus Okey at a police post in Istanbul.

An Istanbul court upheld June 5 a previous verdict sentencing a police officer to four years in prison for “involuntary manslaughter” in the fatal shooting of Nigerian refugee Festus Okey.