Paraguay: Further information on fear for Safety / Ill-treatment

Rubén Darío Alcaraz has been released, and Francisco Carballo Figueredo is not reported to have suffered any further ill-treatment. Some 200 minors are still held at the Panchito López juvenile detention centre, although the government has maintained for several years that all the inmates were shortly to be transferred to a new purpose-built facility. Amnesty International considers that conditions of detention at Panchito López amount to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.

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