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Kyrgyzstan: UN  July 21, 2010 01:38 IST  United Nations Human
Rights chief on Tuesday said she has information that that
security forces in southern Kyrgyzstan are using torture against
young Uzbek men, who are also being subjected to beatings,
arbitrary detentions and forced confessions.  "My staff in
Kyrgyzstan have received information suggesting that local
authorities are routinely turning a blind eye to illegal
arrests, torture and ill-treatment of detainees leading to
forced confessions," Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human
Rights, said.  "Large numbers of people most of them young men,
and virtually all of them Uzbek have been arbitrarily detained
in ways that not only demonstrate flagrant ethnic bias, but also
break many of the fundamental tenets of both Kyrgyz and
international law," she said.  Pillay's spokesman Rupe