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.
“We Urge You to Respond Clearly and Decisively to the Flagrant Violations of Human Rights in Iraq”
by salah al hashimi and Tahrir Swift on 09-01-2013
"I would like to draw your attention, and that of the British Government, to a worrying and rapidly developing situation in Iraq." Open letter from Iraqi/British citizens Salah al Hashimi and Tahrir Swift to British MP
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 “expose themselves to the police”. He also said that “some 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.”
Iraqi prosecutors have submitted a report that confirms the occurrence of torture and violations and rape of women detained in Iraqi prisons. The report is based on confidential testimonies of female prisoners
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Iraqi Red Crescent Society under attack 2003 – 2012. Complicity of US Occupation Forces.
by Dirk Adriaensens on 15-12-2012
Mohammad Al Qaysee, a member of the Iraqi Red Crescent Organisation was arrested and imprisoned. He died under torture 45 days ago, but Maliki’s secret prisons staff wouldn't let his family collect the body.
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