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 Iraqi men tortured at prison near Baghdad, Human Rights Watch says
The Associated Press
BAGHDAD – Iraqi men were held for months at a secret prison outside Baghdad and were systematically tortured and forced to sign confession statements that in some cases they were forbidden to read, according to a report by a human rights group released Wednesday.
Some of the detainees, mostly Sunni Muslims from the northern city of Mosul, were beaten by Iraqi guards so badly they lost teeth and urinated blood for days afterward, said the report by New York-based Human Rights Watch. Others were raped, received electric shocks to their genitals and were deprived of air, the report said.
The Iraqi government quickly shut down the prison after the abuse was revealed last week, and either released or transferred its 431 detainees to another facility. The government also vowed to investigate the abuses, and three army officers have been arrested in connection with the case.
The reports of abuse at the secret facility at the old Muthanna airport in west Baghdad has angered the country's Sunni population, which sees it as another example of persecution at the hands of Iraq's Shiite-led government.
Dalshad Zebari, a Sunni lawmaker from Nineveh province, where most of the detainees were from, called on the U.N. and the International Red Cross for an investigation "of these human rights violations and to force the Iraqi government to make public the names of those involved in these cruel crimes."
In other developments Wednesday:
• Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, the front-runner in Iraq's parliamentary elections, called for the formation of an internationally supervised caretaker government to prevent the country from sliding into violence. A U.N. official dismissed the idea, saying that political disputes can only be resolved by Iraqis themselves.
• Two car bombs exploded within five minutes of each other near a security checkpoint in the Shiite enclave of Abu Dashir, killing seven people and wounding 23.
The Associated Press
(2010-04-30 / Dallas Morning News)
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