Lying in a Morgue, Still Handcuffed

November 30, 2005

handcuffed in morgue
The hands of Mohammed Khalif, 47, are still in handcuffs he lies in the morgue in Baghdad, last June. Family members say he was abducted by 30 men who arrived in trucks with police insignia.

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi authorities have been torturing and abusing prisoners in jails across the country, current and former Iraqi officials charged.

Deputy Human Rights Minister Aida Ussayran and Gen. Muntadhar Muhi al-Samaraee, a former head of special forces at the Ministry of the Interior, made the allegations two weeks after 169 men who apparently had been tortured were discovered in a south-central Baghdad building run by the Interior Ministry. The men reportedly had been beaten with leather belts and steel rods, crammed into tiny rooms with tens of others and forced to sit in their own excrement.

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  1. recently its been said publically that the torture going on now is worse than the saddam era

    Comment by Nas — November 30, 2005 @ 6:40 PM

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