2002
SA Police use "most dehumanising torture imaginable" -- report by "Campaign Against Torture"
November 6 2002- By Graeme Hosken -Suspects in police holding cells in Durban were found tortured 73% of the time - and one arrested man was beaten to death with an iron bar at Chatsworth police holding cells in Durban, according the human rights organisation Campaign Against Torture. Their 23 monitors this year carried out 149 interviews of suspects in Durban area police holding cells - and found that 86 of the 149 arrestees questioned had been tortured. Arrested people are sometimes "assaulted, kneecapped, bitten by dogs, suffocated and subjected to other forms of unimaginably inhumane, violent abuse, such as police batons inserted into their anuses during interrogation."Campaign Against Torture's report states that the SA police had stonewalled the monitoring processs for two years by holding up 23 accreditation badges for its monitors -- and now try to "sweep the report under the carpet" and also are now preventing the organisation from seeing any more arrestees in police cells until the police have perused this report.
Campaign against Torture
C/o The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies.
Hut 11, University of Natal, Durban
Telephone: 260 1295 Facsimile: 260 1540
E-mail: kzncat@saol.com
C/o The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies.
Hut 11, University of Natal, Durban
Telephone: 260 1295 Facsimile: 260 1540
E-mail: kzncat@saol.com
