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In some countries some care (Denmark news)
« on: July 03, 2011, 06:10:01 AM »
Press-release from Rehabilitation- and Research Centre for Torture Victims

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RCT reports Danish social care home for torture and inhuman treatment - 1. July 2011

RCT reports Danish institution Herkules and the Municipality of Fredericia to the police for torture and inhuman treatment.

RCT has decided to report a privately run social care home for youths in Denmark, called “Herkules”, to the Danish Police. The home and the municipality of Fredericia on whose behalf it is run are being reported to the police for use of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment.

- The infringements are so severe that, as an organisation working for the prevention of torture, we can not just stand on the sidelines and watch when things like this happen in our own country. We will not accept that children are kept in solitary confinement for weeks. And it is not right to tell children to carry out forced labour or to punish them with 22-kilometre walks with heavy stones in their backpacks. When, for instance, a child is forced to stand on something that the child believes is a landmine, he will of course think that he is going to die. Death threats are completely unacceptable; they constitute inhuman treatment and mental torture. These are the reasons why we have decided to report both the Municipality of Fredericia and the Herkules care home to the police, says Director General of RCT, Karin Verland, and continues:

- When a private institution, that carries out work for a public authority, exposes children to episodes such as those that have taken place at Herkules, it is the responsibility of the Municipality as well as the institution. This is clear from the European Convention on Human Rights. Therefore, the i parties involved must be brought before a judge and sentenced for offences against the European Convention on Human Rights, article 3, states Karin Verland.

- Exposing people to torture is one of the worst things you can do. The purpose of torture is to degrade human dignity and destroy the human personality. The treatment employed at Herkules may have long-term and chronic effects on the health of the children subjected to it. This includes, for example, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A PTSD condition may worsen if a person believes that his own or other people's lives are in danger or that there is risk of bodily harm. Or if, as a consequence, the person reacts with strong fear, she underlines.

Further information:  Anders Bernhoft, Head of Press: +45 - 22 52 86 57

Herkules has been on Fornits Wiki for some time.
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