A drug addict (C) smokes a cigarette in a street of a shanty town in Phnom PenhAFP
PHNOM PENH — Detainees at Cambodian government-run drug rehabilitation centres suffer "sadistic violence" such as electric shocks, forced labour and rape, a human rights group said Monday.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Cambodia to close at least 11 centres around the country where it said people are often arbitrarily sent without reasonable cause, suffer grave abuses and are denied access to a lawyer.
"Many detainees are subjected to sadistic violence, including being shocked with electric batons and whipped with twisted electrical wire," said a 93-page report from the group.
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