CHICAGO: Amnesty International held a formal Press Conference here on March 23 where Attorney Mr. Jack Rejinder gave the following statement outlining the organizations current stand on India.
The Agency has also advised that 1992 will be a year when India’s violence against police detainees will be closely examined and monitored. Story follows press statements see Amnesty’s Eyes on India.
Torturing suspects has become part of the police daily routine throughout India where hundreds if not thousands of people have died from beatings in recent years and women are regularly raped in jail cells Amnesty International said.
“The torture and deaths continue because police know there’s hardly any Chance of the long arm of the law touching them — even if they Kill the victim and the truth is revealed” the human rights organization said in releasing is latest report.
Amnesty International’s investigation has shown that there is a clear pattern of people being tortured to death through the country — victims are picked up by police illegally detained and then tortured for confessions until they die
“Yet at the highest political level successive governments have denied that torture takes place much Jess done anything to stop it” amnesty Interactional said. “They have exploited poorly-trained and. highly-pressured police forces for their own political ends.”
As part of its campaign to stop these abuses the organization sending its report and 10-point program to stop torture directly to some. 5000 people who confront these violations first hand police.
Article extracted from this publication >> April 3, 1992
