In Russia, torture is a traditional component of "proof" in justice system: Amnesty International

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27 June 2013, 00:00 UTC

Rasul Kudaev’s photos from before and after he was held in police detention in Russia are so different from each other, he hardly looks like the same person.

That’s what happened to him after being tortured to confess to a crime he says he didn't commit.

In October 2005, Rasul was arrested on suspicion of participating in terrorist attacks on government installations in Nalchik, capital city of the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in the North Caucasus region of Russia.
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But the fact that Rasul was tortured to confess to a crime is, sadly, not uncommon in Russia.

The situation is particularly dire in the North Caucasus where law enforcement agencies are rarely held accountable for human rights abuses.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/articles/news/2013/06/torture-russia-torture-traditional-component-proof/

[hobbit709]

1. Not all that uncommon here either.

[snappyturtle]

3. You're right. I wonder if Amnesty International will be looking

into Homan Square.

[mother earth]

4. Behind 'the Disappeared' of Chicago’s Homan Square

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2015/02/behind-the-disappeared-of-chicagos-homan-square/385964/

Behind 'the Disappeared' of Chicago’s Homan Square

A criminologist dissects the so-called black site, where military interrogation techniques are allegedly substituted for questioning

The Guardian’s Spencer Ackerman published a scathing account of Homan Square in Chicago on Tuesday, detailing a ‘black site’ in which Guantanamo-esque interrogation techniques are used to question suspected criminals.

The story is especially timely given the mayoral elections occurring today, and it casts a shadow over Rahm Emanuel’s handling of crime in the city.

But Homan Square sits within a larger story of corruption and violence—one that stretches back through Chicago’s long murky history of fighting crime. Tracy Siska, executive director of the Chicago Justice Project and a criminologist who wrote a corollary story for The Guardian on military interrogation tactics in the city, spoke to me about the allegations of police brutality

in Chicago.
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I agree, snappyturtle.

[snappyturtle]

5. Thanks for the link. This is disgusting and frightening. nt

[mother earth]

6. Oh yeah, in the USA to have this type of facility for a police dept. while we are in the midst of

discovering unprecedented surveillance, makes one wonder just what type of terrorism citizens are up against.

[snappyturtle]

7. I can't help but wonder the same. nt

[freshwest]

2. Amnesty International knows what they talking about.