Human rights abuses

Bosnian police in cooperation with colleagues in France have arrested seven persons and raided several sites, targeting organized crime rings and human traffickers. The raids took place in Zenica, Vlasenica, Jajce and Prijedor.

The joint action, code-named CD, targeted human traffickers in relation to labour exploitation, stealing and begging in France.

A 58-year-old man who had been sentenced to life in prison for a kidnapping and murder carried out in Greece in 1990 was due to be extradited from Turkey on Wednesday.

Constantinos Spinaris absconded while on furlough from prison in 2005 but was caught in Turkey a year later for drug smuggling.

Beatings, torture with electricity, virtual executions: Ukrainian soldiers and pro-Russian rebels conduct them on captured citizens and enemies, according to Amnesty International.

The city of Chicago will be giving dozens of people tortured by police between 1970 and 1980 the total amount of 5.5 million USD, while it will also undertake other initiatives for said people, such as raising a monument to torture victims.

A man who once fought as a sniper for the Free Syrian Army (FSA) was killed in southern Turkey four months ago by the brother of one his victims, whom he ran into coincidentally while trying to flee to Germany, Turkish authorities have revealed.

Romania's former president, Ion Iliescu, has said in an interview with the German newspaper Der Spiegel that between 2002 and 2003 he approved "in principle" a US request for the CIA  to set up a centre in Romania.

A former Nazi death camp officer dubbed the ?bookkeeper of Auschwitz? went on trial in Germany on April 21, with almost 70 Holocaust survivors and victims? relatives at the court.

Two men were arrested on the island of Kos on Friday for allegedly kidnapping a 22-year-old man and blackmailing his parents.

Police said that the two men, aged 31 and 41, abducted their victim in the island?s main town on Thursday due to financial differences.

The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) has leveled serious criticism at Bulgaria.

In a public statement concerning Bulgaria made on March 26, the CPT draws attention to shortcomings in the treatment and conditions of detention of persons deprived of their liberty.

BELGRADE - Commissioner for Equality Protection Nevena Petrusic said on Saturday, to mark March 21 as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, that racism has not yet been completely eradicated in Serbia.