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Chile: prison guards "turn guns on prisoners"

Violence broke out between prisoners and guards in the Colina II prison in the north of Chile’s capital Santiago on February 1. Dozens of people were wounded. But was it really an uprising on the part of prisoners? Human rights groups say that it wasn’t — and that guards mounted a “violent operation” against the detainees, as some videos appear to show.

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