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IRQ - News
Mr. Abdallah Hamoud AL-TWIJRI, savagely tortured
IRQ - News | 06 July 2011
Mr. Abdallah Hamoud AL-TWIJRI, a 29-year-old Saudi national, was arrested in October 2004 by American soldiers at the Syrian border at Al-Qa'im and immediately brought to a military barracks where he was detained for 15 days. He reports having been tied up for several days upside down with his feet and hands bound and being thrown on the ground to be exposed to the sun all day before being placed back in his cell. Interrogations during which he was severely beaten usually took place at night.
Mr. Azzedine BOUJNANE, tortured and imprisoned at Abu Ghraib
IRQ - News | 06 July 2011
Mr. Azzedine Mohamed Abdeslam BOUJNANE is a 28-year-old Moroccan national. Three weeks after his arrival in Iraq for humanitarian purposes, Mr. BOUJNANE was arrested at the end of February 2004 by American soldiers in Baghdad and brought to Baghdad airport. He also reports that he was treated inhumanely with his hands and feet tied. For six days, he was continuously and violently beaten, given eletric shocks and threatened with sexual assault in order to get him to sign confessions.
Iraq: Mohamed Ouabed, tortured and condemned to a heavy sentence
IRQ - News | 06 July 2011
Mr. Mohamed Ahmed OUABED is a 36-year-old Algerian national who is a merchant in Mosul where he normally lives. He was arrested on 18 May 2005 at his home by members of the American armed forces.
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
IRQ - News | 05 July 2011
Since the invasion of Iraq by the Coalition Forces led by the United States in March 2003, many nationals of Arab countries have been the victims of arbitrary arrest, savage torture, and secret detention and have been condemned to heavy sentences following 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.
Iraq: Risk of execution of five foreign nationals sentenced to death
IRQ - News | 01 July 2011
Yousri Al-Tariqi, Tunisian, Badr Ashour Ali, Moroccan, Mohamed Fraj Allah, Libyan, Adel Ali, Libyan, and Nasser Mojib, Saudi Arabian, are detained at Soussa prison in Suleimaniyah (in Iraqi Kurdistan) and had been sentenced to death between 2006 and 2010. They may be executed soon.