26 June
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The Spanish film director Isabel Coixet produced and directed a 30-second awareness-raising TV-spot for the IRCT. The spot was produced in 2005, and has been seen by approximately 300 million viewers around the world on major national and international TV-channels around the globe. 26 June 2011 around the world See where and what the IRCT (International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims) member centres and other human rights organisations are planning to do to celebrate the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on 26 June. |
United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
Article 1
1. For the purposes of this Convention, the term "torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions. » Read more
Article 1
1. For the purposes of this Convention, the term "torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions. » Read more
Despite ratification ....
In 1998 Indonesia had ratified the UN Anti-Torture Convention, which protects the non-derogable rights of people.
......Beatings and Torture remain entrenched in the system.
· Indonesia: Delayed Criminal Code reform prolongs institutional use of torture
Asian Human Rights Commission Statement. June 24, 2011
Indonesia's Anti-terror unit deals out own terror
September 13, 2010 | Protesters tortured, beaten and humiliated by elite force 2010-09-13 Australia paying Indonesian troops who 'torture' and 'brutalise' 2010-09-13 Indonesia: Maluku political activist in critical condition after2010-09-10 Indonesia: End criminalization of peaceful political activities in Maluku 2010-08-19 Moluccan "balloon activists" arrested in Ambon 2010-08-11 Indonesia: Free 'Balloon Activists' in Ambon | Human Rights Watch 2010-08-10 Indonesian torture incidents 'alarming' 2010-08-09 Treatment of suspected Indonesian separatists raises alarm 2010-08-08 See all stories on this topic » |
When will the Indonesian perpetrators of torture be prosecuted under international law ?
 September 13, 2010
Allegations of torture ... from left, Melvin Bremer, Paul Lodewijk Krikoff, Yonas Entamoin and Jacob Sinay in prison. » Read more Personal stories Yonias Siahaya ''I am a human being, not an animal.'' Admitted to hospital after vicious five-hour beating that left his left side immobilised due to fractured hip. Pierced with nails while placed in stress position. Only after four days of coughing blood and vomiting from pain was he given medical care. Paul Lodewijk Krikoff ''It looked like they wanted to terminate us. One of the officers said they would make me into the anchor of the boat.'' Pistol-whipped, kicked, punched, burnt with cigarettes. Forced to eat chillies. Plastic bag put on head until near suffocation. Told to tongue-kiss a fellow prisoner. Andreas Maruanya ''They ordered me and Lodewijk to kiss each other''. Kicked and beaten at Detachment 88 post with sticks while blindfolded. Later attacked with dirty sandals. Refusal to engage in kisses resulted in being held in stress position with head bowed to floor and legs stretched wide. Jacob Sinay ''I was in a big pain. I simply confessed anything.'' Beaten for more than five hours while blindfolded and mouth covered in plastic. Interrogators put his leg under a table leg and then jumped on it. Told to lie down and systematically hit with hard object across legs, arms, fingers and head. Stefen Siahaya ''They cover my face with a plastic bag. I couldn't breathe.'' After breaking plastic bag, beaten in ribs, head, ears with wooden stick. Slapped with sandals and punched repeatedly. Yusuf Sahetapy ''It was torture. It lasted more than a week''. Beaten in the mouth, ear, cheek. In hospital for two days, but on release beaten again during further interrogations. Forced to hold painful stress positions. Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/world/protesters-tortured-beaten-and-humiliated-by-elite-force-20100912-156y9.html#ixzz1PtZKNa6Y
| Teterissa says he was beaten and had a grenade put in his mouth
Torture 'unpunished in Indonesia' BBC 2007/11/23 UN expert finds torture largely unpunished in Indonesia 29 November 2007 Indonesian freedom elusive for some Aljazeera.net TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2008 Indonesia police celebrations marred by torture claims 2008-07-02 00:47:01 Torture 'widespread' in Indonesia: Amnesty 24/06/2009 Activist's death blamed on anti-terrorism squad 'abuses' September 15, 2010 Al Jazeera 28 Jan 2011
Arens Saiya, political prisoner and torture victim, talks to Al Jazeera through a video call.  |
