IRCT [to 10 May 2014]

New report highlights widespread torture in Ukraine
08-05-2014
Excerpt
Treatment of detainees in prisons across Ukraine is so severe in some cases “that it could be considered as amounting to torture”, claims a new European torture report.
The report from the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT), the anti-torture committee of the Council of Europe, collected allegations of torture from prisoners, methods of which include beatings, electric shocks, burning using cigarettes, and asphyxiation using plastic bags.
The allegations were made by adult men, women, and even juveniles in some instances.
The majority of the torture and ill-treatment was committed by Internal Affairs officials, a trend which has been “an issue of grave concern for the CPT since the Committee’s first visit to Ukraine 15 years ago,” the report states…
…The IRCT echoes the calls of the CPT upon the Ukrainian authorities “to take decisive and energetic action to stamp out” the practices of unaccounted detention, ill-treatment and torture.
Full report from CPT here.

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Elena Calix from our Brussels office discusses legislation available to prevent #torture in the U.S. http://wp.me/p1FGNE-zP