Thursday, November 18, 2004

Facilitating Torture

Today at Berria:

Detainees held incommunicado to facilitate torture

The anti-torture association TAT and the pro-amnesty movement AAM have launched a campaign to secure effective commitments and have appealed to political parties and social players

Aitziber Laskibar – BILBO

“They are tortured, because they are held incommunicado. Furthermore, they are held incommunicado, so that they can be tortured.” Thus affirmed TAT member Aiert Larrarte yesterday during a press conference in Bilbo, in which he was accompanied by the lawyer Jon Enparantza and a number of young people who had been arrested during the last few weeks and who, after complaining that they had been tortured, were released. He pointed out that the young people had been held incommunicado after their arrest during the operation conducted by the Spanish Civil Guard in Bizkaia and that all of them had denounced being subjected to severe torture; he added that “16 people are in incommunicado detention at the moment; just imagine what they are going through right now in the hands of the police”.

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