GENEVA (26 June 2014) – Every day, in prisons, police stations and places of detention both official and secret, women, men and children are deliberately and atrociously tortured. They are made to suffer pain and humiliation, and may be made to watch vulnerable family members being tortured. They suffer prolonged isolation and lengthy interrogation; medical treatment, food and water is withheld from them for long periods of time.
There are hundreds of thousands of such victims, and tens of thousands of such places, in countries on every continent across the globe. They include dictatorships, countries in transition, and several States with long traditions of parliamentary democracy. Read the full text in English | Khmer.