Torture reform uncertain

[geovalin]

Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon and Bun Sengkong

Following last week’s US government report calling attention to torture in Cambodia’s prisons and Interior Minister Sar Kheng’s announcement the week before that the government committee tasked with torture prevention would be reformed, the body’s vice president said yesterday that he was unaware of what that might entail.

The US’s annual human rights report, published on Wednesday, alleges that “beatings and other forms of physical mistreatment of police detainees and prison inmates continued during the year”.

The report maintains that “kicking, punching, and pistol whipping were the most common methods of reported physical abuse, but authorities also used electric shock, suffocation, caning, and whipping with wires”, and also notes that forced confessions were “not uncommon”.

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[Dumbastheycome]

Of course! They need adhere to the non torture methods as used in Guantanamo Bay ! !

[Khon Kaen Dave]

They do a very nice line of thumbscrews and red hot pincers at the Soi Bukhaow branch of Millets.