AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. JAPAN ABUSIVE PUNISHMENTS IN JAPANESE PRISONS

Softcover. A 19pp. report issued by Amnesty International regarding detainees in Japanese prisons facing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment through the use and abuse of handcuffs and other instruments of restraint, and the imposition of severe penalties for minor infractions of complex prison rules. The authorities have failed to take adequate action to ensure the protection of the human rights of prisoners and have failed to amend or revoke regulations which have led to significant abuses. This report documents several cases where prisoners have been subjected to violence and ill-treatment by prison officials as a form of punishment for alleged misdemeanors. Prisoners claim to have been restrained in body belts and leather metal handcuffs, forced to eat food like animals from a trough, and humiliated by the 24 hour monitoring of every aspect of their daily lives.