UN investigator urges Morocco to end police torture
RABAT (Reuters) – The United Nations’ special rapporteur said on Saturday torture against people suspected of national security crimes in Morocco was systematic and urged the country to quickly end ill treatment in its prisons and police detention centres. At the end of a rare fact-finding mission at the invitation of Moroccan authorities, Juan Mendez told reporters there was also evidence of torture being inflicted on people held in prisons and detention centres in the disputed Western Sahara, which Rabat controls. . . .
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