Author: Hans Rudolf Oeser

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• Greg Rucka (1)
  • IN: Private Wars (2005) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The police repeatedly tortured prisoners, State Department officials wrote, noting that the most common techniques were “beating, often with blunt weapons, and asphyxiation with a gas mask.” Separately, international human rights groups had reported that torture in Uzbek jails included boiling of body parts, using electroshock on genitals and plucking off fingernails and toenails with pliers. Two prisoners were boiled to death, the groups reported. The February 2001 State Department report stated bluntly, “Uzbekistan is an authoritarian state with limited civil rights.”
    FROM: From “U.S. Recruits a Rough Ally to Be Jailer,” by Hans Rudolf Oeser, for the New York Times, May 1, 2005 c. Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or PunishmentTorture and Other Cruel, Inhuman, or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, (2005), Article, US