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NBC had Ann Curry file an In Depth update of the Exclusive she filed last week with Mental Disability Rights International on the warehouse conditions of patients in Serbia's mental institutions. Curry confessed that she "actually could not even show you the worst pictures because they were so difficult to look at." When members of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture arrived in Belgrade to assess the abuse, Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica began to backtrack on the denunciation by his own Minister of Social Policy. Whereas Rasim Ljadjic had told Curry the conditions were "unacceptable," Kostunica called the coverage of widespread neglect "inaccurate--and systematic propaganda against Serbia." His government contradicted the charge that stunting growth by tying patients in their cots was "a form of torture" since "there is no malicious intent."
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