Friday, February 26, 2010

Russia Demands to Suppress UN Secret Prisons Report

UN’s Human Rights Council published a draft report on secret prisons worldwide. In particular, the report includes interviews with unnamed witnesses alleging they were held and tortured in secret prisons in the Russian North Caucasus (in Chechnya and Dagestan). A Russian representative called the report “confrontational” and urged that it be removed from the UN’s web site.

http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2010/02/19_a_3327089.shtml

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