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Person tortured in Ministry of Defense

Reporter: sophie
Date of incident: 
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Location's classification: 
Public Location
Perpetrator's Name(s) (If available): 
Army intelligence services
Text description of location: 
Ministry of Defense
Detailed description of violation: 

“In early 2009, the army intelligence services came to my house and asked me to follow them to the military barrack of my area for some questions, as they said. I was kept there, in the barrack, for four days with no explanation and without letting me contact anyone. The fifth day I was brought up in a Jeep, and I was blindfolded when arriving to the Ministry of Defense. Before I even had time to realize anything, I was hung to the balanco. I was blindfolded, and they told me I had to confess that I was a member of a terrorist group. I spent seven hours suspended to the balanco! In total I spent 6 days in the Ministry of Defense. I got electric shocks, I was forced to stand for hours with my legs apart, I heard every insult possible. I ended up signing everything without being allowed to read! On the sixth day, I was taken to a small room. There a man examined me. He told the others that the torture should stop because I was exhausted. It was the doctor. "