BRUSSELLS TRIBUNAL

Walid fue declarado inocente y un ‘sospechoso equivocado’ después de haber sido sometido a todo tipo de torturas que le provocaron la pérdida de un ojo y sendas lesiones permanentes en la espalda y en la rodilla.

BAGHDAD DEATHS DETENTION HUMAN RIGHTS HUNGER STRIKE IRAQ - GENERAL CONTEXT - RESISTANCE IRAQ - SPECIFIC GROUPS - PRISONERS OVERCROWDED PRISON PRISONERS PROTEST REPRESSION SECTARIAN

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.

ABU GRAIB ACCOUNTABILITY CONTRACTORS DETENTION HUMAN RIGHTS IRAQ - GENERAL CONTEXT - HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IRAQ - GENERAL CONTEXT - INTERNATIONAL LAW IRAQ - SPECIFIC GROUPS - PRISONERS OCCUPATION PRISON REPRESSION TORTURE US NATO WAR VIOLENCE WAR CRIMES

“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

ACCOUNTABILITY DEBAATHIFICATION DEMOCRACY HUMAN RIGHTS IRAQ - GENERAL CONTEXT - HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IRAQ - GENERAL CONTEXT - INTERNATIONAL LAW IRAQ - GENERAL CONTEXT - RESISTANCE JUSTICE FOR IRAQ MALIKI OCCUPATION PRISONERS PROTEST REPRESSION

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.”

DETENTION HUMAN RIGHTS IRAQ - GENERAL CONTEXT - HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IRAQ - GENERAL CONTEXT - INTERNATIONAL LAW IRAQ - GENERAL CONTEXT - SECURITY IRAQ - SPECIFIC GROUPS - PRISONERS IRAQ - SPECIFIC GROUPS - WOMEN PRISONERS RAPE WOMEN