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June 27, 2017

Argentina : hubo 673 casos de torturas en cárceles y comisarías bonaerenses durante 2016

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South America Torture Argentina

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June 27, 2017

India : Police torture reportedly leads to couple attempting self-immolation

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Asia Torture India

Tension prevailed at the district collectorate here today when a couple attempted to self-immolate accusing an police inspector and a retired Assistant Commissioner of police (ACP) of giving torture over a financial transaction with a private lender.

June 26, 2017

Moldova : Training of trainers course on prevention and combatting of torture, ill-treatment and impunity

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Europe Torture Moldova

The objective of the ToT course is to prepare a group of trainers from the staff members of the People’s Advocate Office and members of the NPM, approximately 20 persons, for delivering further trainings to their peers on the topics covered by the TOT.

June 20, 2017

China: police-run detention centres are a 'human rights disaster': rights lawyers

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Asia Justice Torture China

Recent proposals to reform China’s police-run detention centers are unlikely to do much to address a nationwide “human rights disaster” for police suspects in detention, human rights lawyers told RFA. The country’s Ministry of Public Security issued a call for consultation this week on a replacemen…

June 20, 2017

China : Draft law on detention centers won’t help reduce police torture, critics say

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Asia Torture China

Source - Caixin Global A draft of China’s first-ever law on criminal detention centers calls for better access to bail and medical care for detainees, but legal experts say it will have a limited impact on reducing police torture.

June 19, 2017

Ukraine: anti-torture committee concerned about police ill-treatment and poor conditions of detention of remand and life-sentenced prisoners

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Europe Torture Ukraine

In the report on its November 2016 visit to Ukraine, published today, the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) expresses serious concern about the frequency of allegations of ill-treatment by police officers (such as slap…

June 15, 2017

Pakistan : Bilawal condemns police torture on young docs

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Asia Torture Pakistan

KARACHI - The Chairman, Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has strongly condemned brutal police torture against young doctors in Peshawar.

June 5, 2017

Russia : Russian Interior Ministry ordered to pay $1,200 to man tortured by police

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Asia Europe Torture Violence Russia

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan has ordered Russia’s Interior Ministry to pay 70,000 rubles ($1,200) to a man tortured in a police office, lawyer Andrey Suchkov told RAPSI on Monday.

June 1, 2017

Venezuela : detainees say they’re being beaten, tortured in police custody

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South America Torture Venezuela

After enduring several minutes of beatings with fists and clubs, Erick Izaguirri, 27, was expecting the worst when he was dragged into an outpost of Venezuela’s National Guard.　 “They started to say, ‘Take his pants off, let’s stick the rifle in him,’ ” the anti-government protester recounted durin…

May 22, 2017

Swaziland: probe into 'inhumane' jail conditions

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Africa Material conditions Torture Eswatini

A United Nations group is investigating prison conditions in Swaziland amid reports of inhumane conditions.

May 16, 2017

Bolivia: improve monitoring and tackle high rate of pre-trial detention, UN torture prevention body urges

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Overcrowding Torture Bolivia

The UN torture prevention body urged Bolivia to focus more on making the body that monitors places of detention fully independent, effective and in line with the country’s international obligations.

May 11, 2017

La torture en Tunisie, une "culture" qui ne veut pas mourir

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Africa Torture Tunisia

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May 3, 2017

Sierra Leone: "I came away convinced that many of them know that they will die in the most inhumane prison in the world, despite their young age"

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Africa Torture Sierra Leone

Alberto López is a Spanish journalist at the Department of Communication of the Salesian Missions Office in Madrid. A few days ago he visited one of the most inhumane prisons in the world in order to prepare for a documentary on the work of the Salesians with the most disadvantaged young people of…

April 24, 2017

Censura al amor, soledad y tortura: ser LGBT en una cárcel de Colombia

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Torture Colombia

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April 20, 2017

Mexico: new anti-torture bill gets Deputies’ nod

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Central America and the Caribbean Torture Mexico

The Chamber of Deputies has approved a law against torture intended to prevent, investigate and punish the practice along with other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.

April 13, 2017

Kenya: president signs new anti-torture law

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Africa Justice Torture Kenya

Mistreatment of Kenya’s Muslim Somali community detailed in report last year by human rights commission

April 4, 2017

Australia: treatment of young offenders moved to Barwon prison akin to torture, former head of youth jail education says

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Oceania Torture Violence Australia

The former chief of Victoria’s youth jail schooling system claims the State Government misled the public over the use of Barwon adult maximum security prison to jail young offenders — who he says are being treated in a manner he equates to “torture”.

April 2, 2017

Burkina Faso soldiers tried for "conspiracy" say they were tortured

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Africa Torture Burkina Faso

Some 20 Burkinabe soldiers tried for “military conspiracy” on Saturday before the military tribunal in Ouagadougou complain of “inhuman treatment” and “torture” to get confessions from them.

March 31, 2017

Mise en lumière du recours à la détention pratiqué par la Hongrie, alors que le Sous-comité des Nations Unies pour la prévention de la torture conclut sa visite

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Europe Torture Violence Hungary

Hungary should immediately address the excessive use of detention, the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture (SPT) said on Friday at the end of an 11-day visit to the country.

February 22, 2017

UK prisons 'holding child inmates in solitary confinement against UN torture rules'

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Discipline Torture United Kingdom

Investigation exposes serious allegations of international human rights breaches at young offenders institutions in the UK. British prisons are holding child inmates in solitary confinement in an alleged breach of UN torture rules and British law, The Independent has found. Lawyers in one case have…

February 9, 2017

Unrestricted access: Australia to allow UN inspection of prisons and detention centres to stamp out torture

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Oceania Torture Australia

Independent inspections at youth prisons or immigration detention centres will be permitted after the Turnbull government pledged to ratify a United Nations treaty in a bid to stamp out torture.

January 30, 2017

Looking back on six years of leadership against solitary confinement with UN torture expert Juan Méndez

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Discipline Torture

Juan E. Méndez stepped down from his position as United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment on October 31, 2016, ending six years of investigating and reporting on the use of torture in the 193 UN member states.

December 12, 2016

Different detention conditions for Palestinian prisoners

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Middle East Access to legal rights Justice Torture Violence Israel

Nearly 7,000 Palestinian prisoners are incarcerated in Israeli prisons, under the military regime. The facilities are located outside of the occupied territories, in total violation of international law. Arrested for political reasons, the detainees are particularly prone to arbitrary detention, to…

December 8, 2016

UK : Our prison restraint techniques can kill children.

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Europe Minors Discipline Torture United Kingdom

Tuesday the Ministry of Justice had been told that the restraint techniques it had approved for use on children in custody could kill them. A risk assessment carried out by an independent medical adviser concluded that 28 of the 66 sanctioned restraints had a 40% to 60% chance of resulting in injur…