Report on Torture in Spain

In the last few years, we have witnessed new chapters of this crisis that portray very worrying scenarios for the true respect of human rights. Resorting more and more to military options, adopting antiterrorist legislations that violate fundamental rights and liberties, revealing humiliating and degrading practices, cruel and abusive treatment and torture all over the world, the obstacles set up to prevent the investigation of such practices, and certain kinds of «naturalization» of this regression, constitute just some of the signals that have to be taken into account if we want to keep a model of civilization which could avoid the return to the barbarism that Europe suffered just a little over than half a century ago. Recent solid research projects from very renowned centres and associations devoted to the task of the protection of human rights have revealed the remarkable increase of reports on the cruel and abusive treatment and torture in places where there are people deprived of their freedom (prisons, juvenile correctional centres, detention centres for foreigners-immigrants, and police stations).

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Report on Torture in Spain