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Asia: Videos on Drug Abuse and Detention Centers

10 September, 2010 - 03:40

By Juliana Rincón Parra


image from HCLU video

Drug abuse detention centers in Asia are in the spotlight. Although some Asian drug addicts go in voluntarily to kick their habit, in some places, this has led to routine human rights abuses where people off the street are locked up with no choice, tortured, raped, forced to work for free and denied basic comforts.

The Hungarian Civil Liberties Union has released Abuse in the Name of Treatment, a new video showing the[...]

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