Amnesty Documents Uses of Torture by Russian Police
Last week it was Human Rights Watch’s report on how Ramzan Kadyrov’s “anti-terrorist” forces use torture, secret detention, and kidnapping to intimidate and terrorize Chechens. Now Amnesty International has a report on how the Russian police use torture to extract confessions from suspects. Despite efforts to crackdown on police abuse, the report states that since May 2002, Amnesty “has documented dozens of cases of alleged torture and ill-treatment with a view to extracting a “confession” in police custody and pre-trial detention during ordinary criminal investigations across the Russian Federation.” In 2005, NGOs documented 114 cases of torture committed in Russia alone, excluding, excluding of course, the North Caucasus.
The report continues:
Although there are cases of torture and ill-treatment at all stages in the pre-trial detention system, sources confirm that the problem is most acute in police stations and ..read more
