GUATEMALAGUATEMALAUnofficial visits to the Observation Centre for Boys and the Observation Centre for Girls, together with interviews with previously detained children, carried out by Human Rights Watch and published in 1997, revealed persistent and widespread use of corporal punishment and abuse of children in detention, particularly at the hands of the Spanish organisation Rehabilitacion de los Marginados (REMAR) governing the boys' detention facility for serious or repeat offenders.
(Human Rights Watch, 1997, Guatemala's Forgotten Children: Police violence and abuses in detention, New York: Human Rights Watch)
Report available at: http://www.hrw.org/reports/1997/guat1/