Human Rights Watch: Hundreds of Thousands Still Tortured in Name of Drug Treatment

Reblogged from Health & Family:

Correction Appended: Aug. 6, 2012

More than 350,000 people are held in filthy, overcrowded “drug treatment” centers — actually forced-labor camps — in Asia, where they are beaten and compelled to engage in harsh work for little or no pay, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch (HRW). They are detained without due process, some tortured with electric shock, starved and deprived of food and water.

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