KIEV (Reuters) - Amnesty International urged Ukraine on Thursday to put an end to "shocking levels of mistreatment of detainees" by police, but Kiev said the rights group had exaggerated the problem.
"Beatings and torture continue unabated in Ukraine in spite of the new Criminal Procedure Code adopted by the government late last year," David Diaz-Jogeix, Amnesty's Europe and Central Asia deputy programme director, said in a statement.
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