From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 5/16/2006 3:28 AM Helsinki Group Suspects Secret Prisons In Chechnya Chechnya -- Chechen security forces x Chechen security forces (file photo) (RFE/RL) PRAGUE, May 15, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- A Vienna-based rights group is urging Europe's main human rights body to investigate the existence of secret prisons in Chechnya.
In a new 37-page report titled "Unofficial Places of Detention in the Chechen Republic," the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights documents the existence of what it says are secret prisons in Russia's breakaway southern republic.
It alleges that the illegal prisons are operated by Chechen officials and Russian security forces and are used to obtain information and confessions through beatings and torture, and for extrajudicial executions.
The group says it has sent its report to Dick Marty, who is heading a probe into alleged secret CIA detention centers in member states of the Council of Europe. http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/05/65823f2a-de24-4110-8e95-50a2f161b427.html
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