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Spain: Report on torture

01 January 1995

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The Association Against Torture (ACT) in its report for 1993 recorded an increase in the number of registered cases of torture from 172 in 1992 to 267 in 1993. The cases involved 448 members of the Security Forces of the State. A third of the cases concerned people detained in relation to armed organisations or political offences. Two hundred of the accused officials were awaiting trial, 120 were acquitted and 128 were found guilty on charges of torture.

ACT have sent the Minister of Justice and Interior, Mr Belloch, a series of proposals: 1) the recognition of the crime of torture as well as ill treatment; 2) the elimination of holding people incommunicado for questioning; 3) to have forensic examinations carried out by a doctor nominated by the defendant; 4) to authorise visits to prisons by human rights organisations; 5) to stop the policy of pardoning all officials convicted of torture.

Kontrola Kontrolpean, Donostia, Euskadi (Spain).

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