One victim interviewed by HRW was forced to undergo nausea-inducing injections while watching same-sex porn.
Thai officials also "colluded with traffickers; used information from victim interviews to weaken cases; and engaged in commercial sex acts with child trafficking victims".
The participants, usually gathered in a hotel conference room, use the scenarios to act out mock bail hearings, meetings with police officers and victim interviews.
Even the best victim interviews won't lead to fair trials if prosecutors can't convince a jury to believe a survivor's story.
The media on the most part complied at first, but as the Town Hall continued, most of the TV news rebelled and threatened not to broadcast the segment on their news hours without victim interviews.
Each alleged victim interviewed asserted that no such fraud had taken place, and that they had successfully cast ballots in 2010 for the candidates of their choice without any coercion or meddling.
Of the abuse victims interviewed for One in Four's report, nearly 90% had never informed the police.
Because journalists have only limited access to Russian-controlled areas, most of the victims interviewed have been ethnic Georgians.
More than 90 of the 9,758 victims interviewed by the CNDH, between September 2008 and February 2009, said public officials, particularly the police, were involved in their kidnapping.
But a relative of two of the victims, interviewed separately, offered a more precise reason: The victims' car "was full of papers for the loya jirga.
