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IRAQ – GENERAL CONTEXT – INTERNATIONAL LAW

Because he reported sanctions against Iraq and the genocide programme of Oil for food: Gilles Munier is in the dock

by 7 Jours, Revue de presse on 12-01-2013

Gilles Munier, from Rennes, who became well known at the end of the seventies for his knowledge of Iraq and later for his opposition to the embargo, was accused by Judge Pilippe Courroye in October 2005 in the case known as â€śOil for food,â€ť of â€śpeddling political favoursâ€ť and â€ścorruption of foreign public officials;â€ť in other words, he was accused of having violated a UN resolution.â€ť

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Iraqis win $5.8m from US firm in Abu Ghraib torture lawsuit

by Patrick Cockburn on 10-01-2013

Payout to 71 former prisoners is first of its kind from a defence contractor active in Iraq: Iraqi prisoners who allege they were tortured in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq are being paid $5.8m by the subsidiary of a US defence contractor accused of complicity in their mistreatment.

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Iraqi MP states: No Rape in Iraqi Prisons, but Consensual Sex Between Inmates and Policemen

by Tahrir Swift and Dirk Adriaensens on 08-01-2013

Iraqi MP Ali Shubbar, member of the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee, accused Iraqi female inmates in Iraqi prisons of "sexual lust" and continued by claiming that they â€śexpose themselves to the policeâ€ť. He also said that â€śsome prisoners have sexual thirst. So they present themselves to the police to have sex with them and then they later claim that they have been raped.â€ť

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Justice for the Iraqi People. The uprisings continue.

by Dr. Souad Al-Azzawi on 07-01-2013

With all the rage, strikes, and civil disobedience going on in major Iraqi cities, people around the world are wondering whatâ€™s happening in Iraq these days.