Rights groups criticize 'inhuman' Dutch terror jails
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Two international rights organizations are criticizing the Dutch government for detaining people convicted or suspected of terror offenses in "inhuman conditions" at two top-security prison units.
Amnesty International and the Open Society Justice Initiative said in a 60-page report published Tuesday that detainees are routinely confined to their individual cells for between 19 and 22 hours each day and guards, "routinely and frequently administer full-nudity body searches that are invasive and humiliating."
Doutje Lettinga, of Amnesty International Netherlands, says in a statement that measures used at the units "can unnecessarily isolate and humiliate people" and violate the Netherlands' human rights obligations.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The report is based on interviews with people including 19 ex-detainees.
The Security and Justice Ministry didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.