to be more gentle. but this may be too little, too late for the regime. rachel denber is deputy directorfor europe and central asia at human rights watch, an international ngo. she's in new york. thank you for coming on the programme. my pleasure. so what are you hearing from your people on the ground about what is happening there to people? what we are hearing and seeing are numerous credible accounts of beatings... humiliation, egregious lee bad conditions in custody with people lying stacked up next to each other, and beatings at the moment of apprehension, beatings and the police vans, beating that the police vans, beating that the police stations, people being apprehended, this is in the first four days, people being apprehended for absolutely no reason. they have been