TORTURE MACHINE
SPANISH PRISON.
SENSATIONAL REVELATIONS.
(United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) London, January 25.
The News-Chronicle says: “A sensational document describing the tortures and maltreatment of Asturian prisoners after the October revolution has been presented to President Zamora by the author, Felix Ordas, Minister of Commerce in the Radical Cabinet of 1933. The document is in the form of an 18,000 word book which has been circulated clandestinely in Spain. The most startling accusation is a big torture machine, copied from a specimen used during the Inquisition, employed in a prison at Meires. The prisoners wrists were tied and they were then hoisted by a pulley with their arms overhead. Ordas quotes four cases of men being tortured by it. He also de-' scribes instances of severe beatings and declares: “If the Republic’s existence necessitates such tortures it is better for it to disappear.”
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Southland Times, Issue 22491, 28 January 1935, Page 7
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