In Iraq, Push Is on for Detainees' Rights

[tlcandie]

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAQ_BEHIND_THE_WALLS?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL



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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- The U.S. military is detaining more than 5,000 Iraqi men and women accused of common crimes or of being security threats - people whose legal rights are in dispute and whose living conditions are hidden from public view.

The Iraqi Lawyers League, under a new, elected leadership, is mounting a rights campaign on their behalf, and on behalf of the uncertain families they left behind.

"We're in touch with the people. They come to us," said the lawyers association vice president, Kamal Hamdoun. "We were obliged to do something. The detainees' situation doesn't meet the minimum of human rights."
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[bluestateguy]

1. Just wait

The overflow of detainees will be a pretext for lucrative contracts for buidling new prisons in Iraq.