An investigation by Indonesian state-run rights bodies found widespread violations by security forces including sexual abuse of some minors during last year’s deadly anti-government protests. Thousands of people angry at state spending policies took part last August in nationwide demonstrations that turned violent after the killing of a motorcycle taxi driver by police. More than 5,000 were detained, the six rights groups said in a report released this week, many facing mistreatment from beatings and electric shocks to the slathering of faces with chilli paste to create a burning sensation. Eleven people died during riots that saw some officials’ homes and government buildings ransacked in Indonesia’s worst violence for two decades. “There are indications of widespread and massive human rights violations,” Saurlin Siagian, an official at one of the investigating bodies, the National Human Rights Commission, told reporters on Monday of the four-month investigation.

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