[NYTr] Salvadoran Government Charged with Torture
 
Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 17:53:52 -0500 (CDT)

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El Salvador Charged with Torture

San Salvador, Jul 5 (Prensa Latina) Members of the Permanent Risk
Management Center (MPGR) charged the Salvadorian government with
psychological torture of the civilian population.

The charge is based on police repression last Monday when the
population and civilian institutions held a peaceful protest against
the policy of decentralizing water, a government action they consider
is aimed at privatization.

The Unit for Maintenance of Public Order, members of Special Police
Operations and Groups of Police Reaction forcefully broke up the
demonstration that culminated with 14 arrests and several injured.

According to witnesses, the police sprayed pepper gas and fired rubber
bullets at the demonstrators.

Members of the Association of Rural Communities for Development in El
Salvador (CRIPDES) who were arrested declared that when being
transported by helicopter to Cojutepeque, the police mistreated them
psychologically.

Doctor Jeannette Alvarado of MPGR claimed the police surpassed limits
of tolerance and recalled the 1970s when the population was forbidden
to express dissatisfaction.

The groups have filed charges to Amnesty International, the United
Nations and the Interamerican Commission of Human Rights.

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