vendredi 28 novembre 2014

UN committee calls for Washington to reduce the "oppression" police



Urged the United Nations Committee Against Torture on the United States to conduct a thorough investigation, the police and the prosecution, which fired on the unarmed black man.
The Committee called on the United States to take legal action against what it called the oppression of the police, and not to use Tasers only in situations that pose a threat to life.
With the issuance of the first report prepared by the Committee Against Torture to record the United States in the prevention of torture since 2006, the independent expert Mudwig Janes said that with the Committee against Torture reports of widespread use of force by police against some ethnic groups and blacks.
The report comes in the wake of racially pigment disorders in US cities this week, because of a provision in Ferguson, Missouri spent not to indict a white officer shot and killed an unarmed black youth.
It condemned what it described as "severe pain and long suffering" who Athmlhma prisoners during operations "failed execution," repeated sexual abuse of prisoners, and restrict cramp pregnant women in some prisons and the excessive use of solitary confinement.
The report said there was deep concern of "numerous reports" about police brutality and excessive use of force with persons belonging to minorities and with immigrants and homosexuals, as well as racial characterization and the militarization of police work.
The report also pointed to "repeat the facts of the shooting by the police or prosecution of members of the deadly black isolation."
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