Commissioner Severe convinced of the torture of prisoners in Chechnya
16:04 // 01.03.2007 The torture of prisoners in Chechnya is systematic in nature, says the Commissioner of the European Council on Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg. “I was convinced that the prisoners are tortured in Chechnya, and this is not an isolated case. It is obvious that this happens systematically,” Hammarberg said at a human rights conference in Grozny. During a three -day stay in Chechnya, the commissar Sea visited one of the investigative insulators in Grozny and talked with prisoners.