Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Russia

Study: Police Brutality Widespread In Russia

28 June 2004 -- A study says police brutality is so widespread in Russia that 87 percent of medical emergency doctors have treated victims of such violence.

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June 28, 2004

The study was conducted by the respected research center of Yury Levada last month, polling 619 emergency room personnel in 42 Russian cities.

Levada said in Moscow that the study proves that law enforcement violence, especially by the police, is "widespread and systematic."

Representatives of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) who attended the report's release called on NGOs to get involved in the issue since authorities "close their eyes" on the phenomenon, Levada said.

Igor Kalyapin, head of Nizhni Novogorod-based Committee Against Torture, said that Russia currently has no judiciary system of control over police violence.

(AFP)

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