Torture charge
The human-rights organisation Amnesty International has said there is evidence suggesting the widespread use of torture by Iraq’s security forces against political detainees. In a report entitled “Iraq, evidence of torture,” the London-based organisation documented the cases of 15 former detainees who alleged they had been tortured between September, 1976, and August, 1979. The 12 men and three women interviewed and medically examined by Amnesty described torture ranging from blows delivered with fists, boots, truncheons, and whips to sustained beating of the soles of the feet, electric shock, and mock execution.— London.
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Press, 2 June 1981, Page 25
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