BRUSSELLS TRIBUNAL

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.

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.”

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The dark and secret dungeons of Iraq. Horror stories of female prisoners

by Wijhat Nadhar on 02-12-2012

When women in Iraq are arrested, they routinely go through three gruesome phases, starting with humiliation, followed by torture, and often ending with rape. I have received disturbing information from two different, well informed sources: one from qualified social workers in Al-Kadimiyah Women Prison, the other from three national guards officers who worked in the prison.

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Declaración de intelectuales iraquíes, palestinos y árabes en condena por la hipocresía del gobierno iraquí respecto a los prisioneros palestinos

by Sabah Al-Mukhtar on 28-11-2012

La Liga de Estados Árabes cursó la siguiente invitación: "Nos complace invitarle a la Conferencia Internacional de Solidaridad con los prisioneros palestinos y árabes en cárceles israelíes”, organizada por la Liga de Estados Árabes y que acogerá la República de Iraq los días 11 y 12 de diciembre en Bagdad.

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