Public has the right to know
The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights would like to draw attention to the impermissible conduct of the officials who had ordered and supervised the police interventions in the Niš and Požarevac prisons last week. Although several days have passed since the Gendarmerie intervention, the Justice Ministry and prison directorate officials still keep silent about the circumstances in which the police acted, the degree of force used against the rioting prisoners, the number of injured inmates and the gravity of their injuries. The public has only had the chance to indirectly hear the accounts of the doctors who had seen to the injured inmates. (more…)