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Harsh New Report by Amnesty International Exposes Appalling Prison Conditions in Chad

Chadian Government Must Curtail Atrocious Treatment of Inmates, Human Rights Organization Says

New York–(ENEWSPF)–September 10, 2012.  In a harsh new report on prisons in Chad, Amnesty International found severely overcrowded, unventilated and filthy cells where prisoners are chained 24 hours a day and temperatures reach up to 118 degrees Fahrenheit. The human rights organization, which visited six Chadian prisons, documented men, women and children jailed together and prisoner deaths caused by rampant neglect and…

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