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| U.N. investigator tells of horrors of world prisons |
| By washingtonpost.com |
| Published: 10/21/2009 |
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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Inmates at a prison in Uruguay can spend years in "tin cans" -- small metal boxes where temperatures rise to 140 degrees F (60 degrees C), while women and children were among prisoners in Nigeria confined to a "torture room." Those were among the abuses chronicled in a report released on Tuesday by Manfred Nowak, an Austrian human rights lawyer and U.N. special rapporteur on torture and other forms of cruel and inhuman treatment and punishment. Speaking to reporters after submitting his report to the U.N. General Assembly, Nowak said he focused on "forgotten prisons" and the treatment of children in the dozens of countries he visited. Nowak said women and children in Lagos, Nigeria, were among the more than 100 detainees confined to the "torture room" of the Criminal Investigation Department, where torture methods included the firing of gunshots into legs and leaving the severely injured prisoners without medical treatment. Read More. |
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