Thursday, March 10, 2011

Several videos showing the torture of prisoners from a jail in Mendoza

BUENOS AIRES, 10 Mar. A series of videos, recorded with a mobile phone and circulated via the Internet, showing the tortures prisoners from the prison of San Felipe, in Argentina's Mendoza province (west-central). The officer who shot these scenes and seven of their comrades have been arrested. In one of the tapes, a group of officers beating a prisoner who is handcuffed and lying on the ground.

They give several kicks to the head and stomach until the defendant advised that he had been from a rib. Then they change position, kneeling down and mounting him on the arms, and gave him several slaps on the side. In another recording, two prison workers hit punched in the stomach and arms to a young intern who is standing against them and against the wall.

After several blows deal it, attackers look to the author of the video and decide to close the door to the room where they are. In third movie, a group of guards forcing prisoners to run, sometimes naked, and an internal courtyard to get to their cells, urging them to shoving and hitting.

After the race some of the staff look at the camera and smiling greeting, one of them while holding a metal rod. These are just some of the over one hundred films that are, as noted by counsel for the prisoners, Diego Lavado, who processed the complaint last February as part of this material came to the Association for the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights to which it belongs.

For his part, Minister of Government, Mario Adaro, considered that these images are "an unusual violence and abuse." "It is the system we are seeking. These practices aim to eradicate," he asserted was quoted by the newspaper 'La Nacion'.

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