Dragnet: Mass arrests, detentions in Iraq
Notorious torture prison in use a year after government said it was shut down… Iraq’s government has been carrying out mass arrests and unlawfully detaining people in the notorious Camp Honor prison facility in Baghdad’s Green Zone, based on numerous interviews with victims, witnesses, family members, and government officials. The government had claimed [...]
For all the talk of reversing Bush-era excesses, has Obama actually been any better when it comes to torture, surveillance and detention? As his reelection campaign ramps up, President Obama has touted his winding down of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He’s also kept up the tough talk about the broader war against Al Qaeda. In [...]
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Global report shows sharp rise in executions in Middle East in 2011… A new report into executions across the world in 2011 shows that the number of countries using capital punishment has fallen by a third compared to a decade earlier. Despite this, those that are carrying out death sentences showed a sharp increase [...]
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The woman at the centre of torture at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq speaks out… Eight years have now passed since the Abu Ghraib scandal erupted around the world, and seriously threatened the war effort of the United States in the country. Lynndie England, co-conspirator and partner of Abu Ghraib’s ringleader Charles Graner, [...]
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Religious fanatics target Iraqis with long hair and ‘strange’ dress sense… Encouraged by the Iraq’s Interior Ministry, which has described so-called ‘emos’ as ‘devil-worshippers’, Shia militias in Iraq are thought to have killed up to 90 youths on the basis of their ‘emo’ appearance. A statement on the Interior Ministry website says: The [...]
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Beatings and detentions mark anniversary of peaceful Iraq protests… Uniformed security forces clamped down on demonstrations marking February 2012 anniversaries of the start of weekly protests in Iraq, Human Rights Watch said today. Security forces blocked access to protest sites in Baghdad; beat and arrested peaceful demonstrators in Sulaimaniya, Kurdistan; and briefly detained, [...]
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There is little debate in Israel about the real consequences of a strike against Iran… As Israel and Iran continue a war or words and low-level proxy attacks, the debate in Israel is currently focussed on whether or not the country should attack Iran’s nuclear programme. However what’s been relatively absent is any sense [...]
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‘Democratic’ Iraq starts 2012 with a period of executions that hark back to the Saddam era… Iraqi authorities should halt all executions and abolish the death penalty, Human Rights Watch said today. Since the beginning of 2012, Iraq has executed at least 65 prisoners, 51 of them in January, and 14 more on [...]
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