Talking Torture in Iraq, Who?

Who's talking about torture in Iraq?

27 April 2010 Not the Foreign Office – it wants to gloss over evidence of human rights abuses as much as it hyped them with Saddam

A new report from Amnesty International highlights human rights abuses in present-day Iraq, mainly by armed groups, and the failure of the Iraqi authorities to take effective action to stop such abuses. It comes a week after revelations about a secret prison under the jurisdiction of the Iraqi prime minister, where detainees were allegedly tortured. How concerned is the UK government about these issues? Concerned mainly to play them down, it appears.

Last Monday the Los Angeles Times reported that: "Hundreds of Sunni men disappeared for months into a secret Baghdad prison under the jurisdiction of prime minister Nouri Maliki's military office, where many were routinely tortured." The existence of the prison is not disputed, and the allegations of abuse – including the death of one detainee –were apparently substantiated by an internal US embassy report. -->-->-->