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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/424A80BA-3F97-4C7A-96 67-1CF916A9F012.htm Iraqi group urges prison abuse inquiry Wednesday 16 November 2005, 15:03 Makka Time, 12:03 GMT < id=DateDisp_updateDate = name=DateDisp:updateDate> <> >
Iraq's government faces calls for an international inquiry into abuse at a secret prison in Baghdad where inmates were reportedly tortured, beaten and starved.
The call by the Sunni-based Islamic Party on Wednesday comes after revelations that about 170 detainees, mostly Sunni, were illegally held at a centre run by the Shia-dominated Interior Ministry, in a case likely to embarrass the US military supervising local security forces. "We insist on having an international investigation," Islamic Party spokesman Alaa Makki said. "There have been similar cases in the past, and investigations into them led to nothing," said another party spokesman, Ayad Samarrai. "We want an international and impartial inquiry as we are beginning to think there are people high up in government who are responsible, or at least accomplices."
Al-Jaafari has ordered an Al-Jaafari's spokesman Laith Kubba told the BBC the prime minister was "outraged" by the alleged abuse, adding: "It goes pretty much against all the core values that this government holds." The case came to light after US forces raided the underground facilities of an Interior Ministry complex in south Baghdad on Sunday. Hussein Kamal, Iraq's deputy interior minister, told CNN television he saw evidence of torture. Torture evident
Videos of torture testimony wer e Al-Kubaissi also accused Interior Ministry services of "detaining people at night in their homes on terrorist charges and then torturing them into making confessions, parts of which are then broadcast on television". Abu Ghraib
The US army was criticised for The United States will provide "technical assistance, including support from US law enforcement elements of the department of justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation" to help the Iraqi government look into the matter, the US statement added. Detentions In London, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw spoke of his "deep shock" and said: "Whoever carried out this abuse must be caught and brought to justice, regardless of rank or background." The UN mission in Iraq on Monday accused the Interior Ministry of holding hundreds of people in detention despite judicial orders for their release. Sunni Arabs, who provide the backbone to the anti-US fight, have repeatedly accused Iraq's security agencies, some of which have allegedly been infiltrated by Shia militias, of engaging in torture and extra-judicial executions. EU concern EU external relations commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner noted that al-Jaafari had ordered an investigation into the reports and stressed that the facts were not confirmed. But she said: "If it were so, it's clear ... that human rights are part of our very, very strong values, and those values that we want also to export to Iraq." Speaking at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, she recalled that the EU agreed this year to fund training of Iraqi judges and senior police. "What we can do is to contribute ... by building up a police corps that does not torture, a police corps that really knows where the limits are, but at the same time tries to restore order," she said. |
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