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No case for torture: Switzerland dismisses legal complaint by former political prisoner Natallia Hersche

Natallia Hersche speaks to media representatives at the Zurich airport, Switzerland. February 18, 2022. Photo: Keystone / Associated Press / East News
Natallia Hersche speaks to media representatives at the Zurich airport, Switzerland. February 18, 2022. Photo: Keystone / Associated Press / East News

The Office of the Attorney General considered the conditions of her detention in the Belarusian colony to be "extremely harsh" and "partially degrading," but ruled them to be "routine flaws of prisons under an authoritarian regime."