Torture remains prevalent in too many countries, UN warns

Saturday, June 25th 2011 - 07:44 UTC

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Too many countries are still practising or tolerating “cruel, degrading and illegal” acts of torture, top United Nations officials said today as they pledged the UN's solidarity with the millions of torture victims worldwide. Read full article

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GeoffWard
Torture is lower on the Brasilian agenda than the overcrowding of its prisons.

New legislation is being introduced to remove from *prison* sentencing most (?) categories of crime apart from actual homicides for those with funds to avoid it(50-100- killings *p.a.* per 100,000 in major cities = 2,000-3,000 p.a. for my own city of Salvador, or around 7 killed each day ).
And even if you do kill, the process of serial appeals means that those with money rarely see the prison bars.

It will do much to empty the prisons of those with the money to pay to avoid prison.

Thus Brasilian prisons will be reserved for the poor.
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