16 October 2017 NEW YORK, 13 October 2017 (Issued as received) - Arbitrary violence by police can amount to torture, even when it takes place outside prison walls, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture, Nils Melzer, has told the UN General Assembly in New York. `Any unnecessary, excessive or otherwise arbitrary use of force by law enforcement officials is incompatible with the absolute prohibition of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,` the expert said, presenting his latest report to the UN General Assembly. `Where such force intentionally and purposefully inflicts pain or suffering on powerless individuals, who are unable to escape or resist, it is...
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