Torture 'unpunished in Indonesia'
Indonesia has a "culture of impunity" in the face of ill-treatment and torture, a senior UN official has said.
Manfred Nowak, special rapporteur on torture, has spent two weeks inspecting the country's prisons and police and military detention centres.
Mr Nowak said he found evidence of detainees being electrocuted, suffering systematic beatings and even being shot in the legs at close range.
He called on the government to make torture a separate crime under the law.
The BBC's Lucy Williamson, in Jakarta, says Indonesia has regularly come under scrutiny for its human rights record. Mr Nowak's visit is the third by a UN human rights monitor this year.
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Acts of brutality, torture...etc. which are not condoned and indeed outlawed by a religious state does not reflect poorly on that state or religion. It is only where such acts are condoned, accepted, acquiesced in or endorsed by the state and/or religion that the state or religion in question should attract criticism.