Italian journalist posing as migrant reports abuse at detention camp

[DoYouEverWonder]

October 8, 2005

Prosecutors in Sicily opened a criminal investigation yesterday following the publication of a horrific account by a journalist who disguised himself as an illegal immigrant and spent a week in detention.

Fabrizio Gatti, of the centre-left news magazine L'Espresso, said he had seen immigrant detainees being humiliated and physically and verbally abused by paramilitary carabinieri officers.

His account, published yesterday, has disturbing echoes of the scandal involving the mistreatment of prisoners by American soldiers at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. It will anger those urging a clampdown on immigration as much as human-rights lobbyists.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1587677,00.html

[NorCalDem]

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