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Titolo: Russia attacked over torture in Chechnya (Independent)

Stesse accuse su cui stava indagando la Politkovskaya nella 'pacificata' 
Cecenia.
Am.
Russia attacked over torture in Chechnya
By Andrew Osborn in Moscow
Published: 14 November 2006
Russia has been accused of flouting the United Nations Convention 
Against Torture by "systematically" torturing Chechen civilians at 10 
secret detention centres across the predominantly Muslim republic. The 
allegations, in a report from the New York-based Human Rights Watch 
(HRW), claim that civilians are being tortured into confessing to 
serious crimes that they did not commit.
According to HRW, the objective in most cases is to extract information 
about other suspects. In other cases, people are being convicted for 
bureaucratic convenience - to fill "cases solved" quotas.
The claims echo those by Anna Politkovskaya, the investigative reporter 
who was shot dead in October in what looked like a revenge killing for 
something she had written - her killers have not yet been found. 
Chechnya is officially "at peace" after Russian troops entered the 
republic in 1999 to fight separatist forces.
It is a fight that appears to be all but won, with rebel forces pinned 
in the hills bereft of their strongest leaders, who have either been 
killed or fled abroad.
But HRW questions whether the price being paid is too high and points 
the finger of blame at forces under the command of Ramzan Kadyrov, 
Chechnya's Moscow-backed prime minister, as well as federal policemen.
The report is being studied by the UN's Committee on Torture, and 
documents 115 purported cases of torture between July 2004 and September 
2006.
Though most of the victims were young males, several cases concerned 
"women, elderly, disabled people, and minors, the youngest of whom was 
13 years old", it said.
Holly Cartner, HRW's director for Europe and central Asia, said Russia 
was breaking the UN's Convention on Torture, a document it signed in 
1985, and called for Moscow to halt the practice, investigate its 
allegations and provide redress to victims.
"If you detain someone secretly it's a lot easier to abuse them," she 
said. "[Yet] this is illegal under Russian and international law."
Torture methods listed include electric shock treatment, being beaten 
with cables or plastic bottles filled with water or sand (so as not to 
leave any marks), being burnt with a lighter and being threatened with 
execution or rape. HRW said that it had uncovered evidence of 10 
separate torture facilities in Chechnya, many of which are apparently 
private homes belonging to commanders loyal to Mr Kadyrov.
It alleged that two facilities are in Tsentoroi, Mr Kadyrov's home 
village.
At the heart of the report is witness testimony from two brothers, 
identified as Sulim S and Salambek S.
Sulim, 29, who was detained in March 2006, claimed that he was kept 
blindfolded for five days before being tortured.
"They put a gas mask on my face and would cut the airflow until I 
started suffocating," he said. "They repeatedly gave me electric shocks 
... one charge went through my tongue."
He claims he was beaten around the groin and threatened with rape before 
being told to confess to one of three crimes - he refused.
Prime Minister Kadyrov has repeatedly denied being complicit in torture. 
He says the allegations have been fabricated to end his chances of 
becoming Chechnya's next president.

Rotfl il tutto si basa sulla testimonianza di due anonimi fratelli, ma
dai!!!!!!!

 dai!!!!!!!
due fratelli anonimi che hanno trafficato il sedere del tarato londinese
al Pincio. 
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