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"Skin on the Cable": The Illegal Arrest, Arbitrary Detention and Torture of People Who Use Drugs in Cambodia
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"Skin on the Cable": The Illegal Arrest, Arbitrary Detention and Torture of People Who Use Drugs in Cambodia

Joseph Amon, Rebecca Schleifer, Aisling Reidy and Iain Levine
01 Jan 2010

Abstract

Arrest Cambodia Detention of persons Drug abuse Human rights Torture
Documents Cambodian detainees who use drugs being beaten, raped, forced to donate blood, and subjected to painful physical punishments such as "rolling like a barrel" and being chained while standing in the sun. A large number of detainees told of receiving rotten or insect-ridden food and had symptoms of diseases consistent with nutritional deficiencies. Tables, Figures.

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