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Mr. Abdallah Hamoud AL-TWIJRI, savagely tortured
Mr. Azzedine BOUJNANE, tortured and imprisoned at Abu Ghraib
Iraq: Mohamed Ouabed, tortured and condemned to a heavy sentence
He was transferred to the Mosul airport where he was detained in secret for 10 days. During that time he reports being tortured not only by the American officers who arrested him but also by member of the Iraqi security services wearing civilian clothing or American uniforms.
Mr. Mohamed Ahmed OUABED reports having been violently beaten, insulted, and threatened with death; he was suspended by his feet for long periods several times and tortured with electric shocks all over his body.
He was then brought to the Baghdad airport where he was handed over to different American officers to be interrogated once more: he was forced to undress completely and had his hands and feet tied; he was placed in a placed known as a "black box."
Iraq-USA: Arbitrary detention of 48 "Arab prisoners" in Iraq after unfair trials
Alkarama sent a communication to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and to the Special Rapporteur on Torture to request that they intervene with the Iraqi authorities in 48 cases and seek that the victims' right to remedy is recognized and that they are compensated for their torture and ill treatment.