New report slams Polish prisons

16th July 2011

The report noted two cases of severe torture by prison guards

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A leading human rights organisation has accused the Polish police of using torture and warned of overcrowding in the country’s prisons.

In a bleak assessment of the criminal justice system the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture said that it had been made aware of two cases of torture being used against suspects. The report says the victims were subject to beatings and electric shocks to the genitals “lasting more 30 seconds”. Other detainees were subject to physical intimidation.

Andrew Cutting, a spokesman for the Council of Europe, the body which had commissioned the report, said the incidents of torture were surprising as demands for improvement made after the la ...

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