He said that detainees were beaten, given drugs and used "for experiments".
The accelerated schedule for vaccine deployment, for instance, rests on conservative projections that could be beaten given sufficient will, and provided we clear logistical and regulatory hurdles now.
He had told Amnesty International this year that he and three other journalists had been arrested at a protest rally and taken to a military headquarters, where they were beaten, given electric shocks and threatened with rape.
But Hernández and Fisher's article says that according to medical reports obtained by the journalists, more than two dozen municipal police officers from the towns of Iguala and Cocula were beaten, given electric shocks and "psychologically tortured" in an effort to force confessions from them.
In written testimony provided to the Observer by his lawyer, Shouekh also alleged that he was beaten and given electric shocks.
Mr. Heirens, who said he was beaten and given "truth serum" in jail, disputed the newspaper accounts, saying he was about to sign a confession in exchange for one life term but rebelled at "being forced to lie to save myself".
He described how he was stripped, had his hands and legs tied to a chair, how he was beaten and given electric shocks all over his body, especially his genitals.
The report is understood to outline how prisoners are routinely beaten, given electric shocks and subjected to other human rights violations, some within private jails run by police commanders.
Iraqis at the center have described being kidnapped, beaten, given electric shocks, raped and burned.
It says they were then beaten, given electric shocks and strip searched.
