Iraq has betrayed promises to close notorious detention centre, group claims

Previous to that announcement, The Los Angeles Times reported that prisoners
were kept under harsh conditions at the detention facility in the defence
ministry complex in Baghdad’s heavily-fortified Green Zone, sometimes for up
to two years.

Former detainees at the facility told HRW last year that “interrogators beat
them, hung them upside down for hours at a time, administered electric
shocks to various body parts, including their genitals, and asphyxiated them
repeatedly with plastic bags put over their heads until they passed out”.

Amnesty International also said in a February 2011 report that Iraq operates
secret jails and routinely tortures prisoners to extract confessions that
are used to convict them.

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