13 November 2006, 23:51
Human Rights Watch: they continue torturing inmates in Chechnya
The International Organization Human Rights Watch has disseminated a report on tortures in Chechnya. The document of 16 pages comprises evidences about more than a hundred torture cases, the "Echo Moskvy" reports.
"If you get to custody in Chechnya, you are under risk to become a victim, and chances are miserable that your executioner will be ever brought to responsibility," the "Novaya Gazeta" quotes Holy Cartner, director of the Human Rights Watch for Europe and Central Asia.
Earlier, Alexander Petrov, deputy director of the Human Rights Watch Moscow representative office, told the correspondent of the "Obschaya Gazeta.RU" edition that human deaths are still the main problem of today's Chechnya.
"People perish for negligence of the state, and we may say that people are killed by the hands of the state," A. Petrov said. "People in Chechnya with whom I talked can think neither on social problems, nor on politics. They are overwhelmed by a single thought - how to survive."
