HRW press release: rampant beatings in Jordan prisons go unpunished
Human Rights Watch publicou hoxe unha nota de prensa sobre os maltratos, humillacións e torturas sufridos polos presos en Xordania. Leva por título “Jordan: Rampant Beatings in Prisons Go Unpunished. Human Rights Watch Concludes Visit to Prisons, Intelligence Detention Center”.
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[...] On August 22, the day after Human Rights Watch visited the Swaqa Correction and Rehabilitation Center, 62 miles south of Amman, prison security staff beat all or nearly all of the more than 2,100 prisoners there. They also shaved the beards and heads of all inmates, including religious Muslim men whose beliefs require them to keep a beard. This took place on the first day on the job for the prison’s new director, Majid al-Rawashda.
“Jailers at Swaqa forcibly shaved religious prisoners to humiliate and degrade them, not for any legitimate penal purpose”, Whitson said. “This was a blatant violation of the prisoners’ right to practice their religion”.
After learning that the prisoners had been beaten in the wake of their visit, Human Rights Watch returned to Swaqa on August 26. Some 40 prisoners said that security staff beat them on August 22 with electrical cables, wooden sticks and plastic pipes. Prisoners showed Human Rights Watch dark bruises on their backs, upper arms and legs. The prisoners reported that they had heard the cries of other prisoners who were being beaten over a period of at least eight hours, and said that they believed the jailers had beaten all the prisoners. One prisoner, Ala Abu Utair, died that night, reportedly as a result of injuries caused by beatings. [...]
