No Investigation on Bad Treatment of Detainees in Serbia

CRNPS

31 January 2006

Amnesty International, human rights organization, reports that Serbian authority failed to investigate the alleged bad treatment of detainees during the �Sablja 2003� operation that followed the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.

"Two years after Djindjic�s assassination and the resulting strong measures during which almost 10,000 people were detained and interrogated, the authorities failed to investigate the alleged mistreatment of detainees�, states the media release issued by Amnesty International.

In November 2004, the UN Committee for Prevention of Torture determined that Serbia violated several provisions of the UN Convention on Prevention of Torture, adds the release.

The Amnesty International overview on Europe and Central Asia claims a number of �serious obstacles to eradication of torture, such as inexistence of efficient and independent investigation system� all over the region.