HRW: Ivory Coast military committed abuse, torture

[JURIST] The Ivory Coast's military committed widespread human rights abuses in August and September, Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website] said in a report [text, PDF] released Monday. The report details the alleged abuses including arbitrary arrests, illegal detentions, extortion and torture. The military crackdown was in response to a series of coordinated attacks on military installations in August, allegedly committed by militants loyal to former president Laurent Gbagbo [BBC profile]. HRW compiled its findings during a three-week mission to...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2012/11/hrw-ivory-coast-military-committed-abuse-torture.php

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