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Are protesters tortured in Georgia?

Published: 20 May, 2009, 12:32


Georgian opposition supporters (AFP Photo )

Human rights activists say that practically every detainee among opposition protesters in Georgia has been injured or tortured.

 
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Count Cash May 20, 2009, 19:21 quote
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So the NATO and US torture training is being used immediately. NATO and the US, will see it as a very efficient knowledge transfer to their boy. Opposition, what opposition, Oh! the ones in the Orange suits. Just like in the good old US of A.

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