POLITICAL PRISONERS
TREATMENT IN ARGENTINA ALLEGED BRUTALITY (Rec. 11 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 26. Over 60 political prisoners held at Chaco. Northern Argentina claim that they had been brutally beaten and kicked by the local police, says the New York Times Buenos Aires correspondent. They also complain that they were compelled to sleep naked oh bare floors, forced repeatedly to crawl over broken bricks and hot ashes, and at other times forced to crawl naked on all fours barking like dogs for the amusement of the guards, and forced to perform ludicrous dances nude. They were also made to run while fierce police dogs hunted them. Several claim that they were tortured by an electric goad and given shocks until they fainted. The prisoners are mainly Ukrainians, Czechs. Poles, and Bulgarians, but also include some Argentinians. They were arrested and charged with illicit Communist activities. The accounts of their treatment were so graphic that the College of Lawyers in Resistencia, capital of Chaco, decided to assume their defence in a body. They also telegraphed the Minister of the Interior demanding an investigation, and sent a delegation to Buenos Aires to interview the central authorities.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25881, 27 June 1945, Page 5
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