Attention
News and Assignment Editors
Shocking Human Rights Abuses Faced by Protestors in Jail Police Brutality
Widespread, most severe for Czechs & Israelis.
PRAGUE - In addition to mass denial of the legal rigths, individuals have
faced extreme brutality in Czech jails. Paul Rosenthal from Seattle/Washington
who was released this morning from the Olanska jail in Prague after forty
hours states, "What is happening inside the Czech jails is more than
frightening. People have no rights, they are being beaten severely, they
are disappearing. Women are being forced to strip in front of male guards
and performe exercises. People with serious medical problems have been denied
help." The following are accounts confirmed by people that have been
released from jail:
- Women have
been strip searched by male officers and have been forced to perform physical
exercises for their enjoyment.
- Many individuals are being denied water, food and sleep; some are able
to get food only if they pay guards, women and fascists are more likely
to get water.
- Many people released have reported that before reaching police stations
officers took individuals to isolated areas and beat them severly.
- Two Norwegians that went to a police station on Prisparni Street near
Vlatavska to report s stolen mobile phone witnessed behind briefly opened
doors that a number of people where handcuffed to the wall and being beaten
severly. This is also being confirmed by many reports from released persons
that in the processing rooms, groups 40 to 60 people were asked to spread
eagle while they are beaten, heads were knocked back, legs were kicked
in, and numbers of men had their groins twisted or punched. Additionally
people handcuffed were tossed down stairs.
- There is one report that 22 people were crammed into a four square meter
cell.
- Thirty people were detained at the Olsanska jail in and outdoor courtyard
overnight with no blankets or food. They were later moved to Balkova near
Pilsen.
- Two Germans that were detained in Lupacova, Praha 3 on Wednesday for
approximately eight hours were held with an Israeli, an American, a German,
and an Italian. The Israeli had been beaten severely, had difficulty with
walking, a black eye, and likely a broken rib. He has been denied medical
attention.
- People with diabetes were not fed, people that needed medication were
not given it, the British embassy had to intervene to get medication into
the jail.
- A Norwegian woman held in jail with 30 other women witnessed a German
woman with a badly injured leg where medics were denied.
- Right to legal representation and advice, right to interpreters, right
to food and water, right to basic medical attention, and the right to
a phone call have all been ignored on a widespread scale.
- Czechs and Israelis are being beaten more drastically and are being
detained longer.
- Many internationals are being moved from local stations to Balkova near
Pilsen which has one of the worst human rights records in the Czech Republic.
Unite
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