Amnesty International accused Thailand's police and...

Amnesty International accused Thailand's police and army of widely using torture in prisons and while interrogating criminal suspects. The London-based human rights watchdog said in a new report ethnic minorities were particularly vulnerable to abuse and it called on the government to investigate torture and punish officers found responsible.
"Torture should not be accepted as normal behaviour - it is a gross abuse of power," the report said. It said the police and army routinely used torture and ill-treatment in detention, shortly after arrest, during transport of detainees and in military drug rehabilitation camps set up to end addiction to opium amongst hill-tribe people.
It said shackling of death row inmates was common, despite being against Thai law.