On March 11th CNN published an article by Holly Yan that reported information from the Amnesty International organization about the continuation of human rights abuse in Iraq. The article states that even though 10 years have pasted since Suddam Hussein was captured and put to death there is still a bleak cycle of human rights abuses taking place within the country. Although the occurrence of violence has dropped and people across Iraq have been able to enjoy greater freedoms than they did under Hussein's Ba'athist regime there are still many basic human rights that have yet to materialize and strengthen. The article reports that insurgent attacks on civilians and security forces continue, and that government officials attack the country's own civilians, torture detainees, and hold unfair trails for prisoners who are often later put to death. A few of the methods of torture that detainees have reported are the use of electric shock (sometimes to the genitals), partial suffocation from a bag placed over the head, and beatings, as well as sleep, food, and water deprivation. The report states that these torture methods are used on detainees in order to force confession of crimes or the report of specific information. Such confessions then later used during trial, in which many prisoners have been sentenced long term imprisonment or death on the basis of these confessions that they were forced to make under torture and deprivation. The article also states that if torture allegations are made during the trail they are often ignored and not investigated, and that such unfair trials and their high rate of death sentences have led the country to have one of the highest execution rates in the world.
Article: http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/11/world/meast/iraq-human-rights/?hpt=hp_t2
Brittany Briceno
04.10.2013
2:08AM
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