Torture and ill-treatment of detainees in Iraqi custody
This 94-page report documents how unlawful arrest, long-term incommunicado detention, torture and other ill-treatment of detainees (including children) by Iraqi authorities have become routine and commonplace. Human Rights Watch conducted interviews in Iraq with 90 detainees, 72 of whom alleged having been tortured or ill-treated, particularly under interrogation.
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ISBN: E1701
ISBN: E1701
- The New Iraq?
- Summary
- I. Introduction
- II. Recommendations
- III. Methodology
- IV. Legal Framework
- V. Ministry of Interior Agencies and the Iraqi National Intelligence Service
- VI. Torture and ill-treatment of members of political and armed groups
- VII. Arbitrary Arrest, torture and ill-treatment of criminal suspects
- VIII. Torture and ill-treatment of children held in adult facilities
- IX. Medical examinations and investigation of torture complaints
- X. Multinational Force advisers and reform efforts
- Appendix
- Acknowledgements






