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brettdale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-05 10:25 PM
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Iraq: Amnesty Urges Inquiry Into Custodial Deaths
Iraq: Amnesty Urges Inquiry Into Custodial Deaths

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO0507/S00324.htm

The nine who died were among a group of 12 men who were detained in Baghdad's al-'Amariya district on 10 July. The Iraqi authorities have suggested they were members of an armed group who had engaged in an exchange of fire with US or Iraqi forces, but other sources claim they were a group of bricklayers who were picked up as suspected insurgents and then brutally tortured by police commandoes before being confined in a police van or container in extremely high temperatures for up to 14 hours. Medical staff at Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad, to where the bodies of those who died were taken on 11 July, are reported to have confirmed that some of them bore signs of torture, including electric shocks.


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