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Prison guards "turn guns on prisoners" in Chile
CHILE 02/10/2017
Prison guards "turn guns on prisoners" in Chile
Violence broke out between prisoners and guards in the Colina II prison in the north of Chile's capital Santiago on February 1. Dozens of people were wounded. But was it really an uprising on the part of prisoners? Human rights groups say that it wasn't — and that guards mounted a "violent operation" against the detainees, as some videos appear to show.
On February 1, videos filmed by the prisoners were published on Facebook.
A video shared to Facebook by the lawyer Fernando Alfredo Inzunza Ruston.
In the above video, several guards in the prison's courtyard can be seen apparently kicking and beating prisoners with batons.
More:
http://observers.france24.com/en/20170210-prison-guards-turn-guns-prisoners-chile