More than 200 people including leaders of the main opposition party ( FPI ) have faced illegal detention and torture with many still languishing behind bars, Amnesty International can reveal after members of the organisation returned from a month-long mission to IvoryCoast.
“We were able to meet dozens of detainees who told us how they have been tortured by electricity or had molten plastic poured on their bodies, two of them have been sexually abused. Some have been held for many months and denied contact with their families and access to lawyers” said Gaëtan Mootoo, Amnesty International researcher on West Africa
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