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Allegation iri Spain TORTURE OF PRISONERS ALLEGED By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received January 25, 7.30 p.m.) London, January 24. The “News-Chronicle” says that a sensational document describing tortures and maltreatment of Asturian prisoners after the October revolution has been presented to President Zamora by’ the author, Senor Felix Ordas, Minister of Commerce in the Radical Cabinet of 1933. The document, in the form of an 18,000 words book, has been circulated clandestinely in Spain. The most startling accusation is that a big torture machine, copied from a specimen used during the days of the Inquisition, was employed in the prison at Metres. Prisoners’ wrists were tied and they were then hoisted by a pulley with their arms overhead. Senor Ordas quotes four cases of men tortured by it, and also describes instances of severe beatings. He declares that if the republic’s existence necessitates such tortures it would be better for it to disappear.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 104, 26 January 1935, Page 7
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155INQUISITION WAYS COPIED Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 104, 26 January 1935, Page 7
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