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Spain: Annual Report on Torture

01 May 1995

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Torturaren Arkako Taldea, TAT (Association against Torture) presented its 1994 annual report in March in which it records 114 cases of torture or ill-treatment, 14 cases of assaults on prisoners, and 29 cases involving the police. While the number of reported cases against the Guardia Civil and the Spanish police force is unchanged there has been a considerable increased in cases involving "autonomous" (local) police forces and the municipal police. The TAT lawyer, Begoña de la Cal, criticised the Judicial Administration and pathologists and called for: detainees to be brought before the courts at the earliest opportunity; only statements made to the court to be valid; the abolition of people being held incommunicado; and for specific legislation for the prosecution of crimes of torture. Kontrola Kontrolpean, Donostia, Euskadi (Spain).

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