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Spain: Annual report on torture reveals large increase in cases of abuse against demonstrators

18 June 2012

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On 1 June 2011 in Seville, the Coordinadora para la Prevención y Denuncia de la Tortura (a network that includes 44 associations) released its eighth annual "Report on torture in the Spanish state", a comprehensive analysis of cases of torture enacted by police officers and public officials in different contexts that range from demonstrations and prisons to police stations and policing in the streets. The report includes information on 280 cases of attacks and ill-treatment suffered by 853 people, the highest number of victims recorded since the CPDT's first report in 2005.

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