Detainees Disabled in Occupation Custody

[leftchick]

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/867F28A9-F070-443E-AB7B-6F8BC297BE0B.htm

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Three Arab detainees have been partially disabled after sustaining injuries while being held by occupation troops in Iraq, the ICRC has confirmed.

ICRC spokesman in Amman Kassis Muayin would not specify if the detainees, who were among eight Arabs released from Iraq, were being held by US or British troops.

But he admitted that the men were found "in a British military hospital in southern Iraq with severe injuries". He would not discuss the nature of the injuries.

Five Jordanians, two Syrians and a Lebanese arrived in Amman on Saturday from Iraq.

The international organisation has had access to detainees and prisoners of war in Iraq since late March. During its missions, it sends messages from detainees to their families on their well-being.

The three injured prisoners had been among detainees who had been communicating with their families through the ICRC, said the Amman spokesman. During one of the missions, an ICRC team discovered the three had sustained the injuries, said Muayin.

When asked if the organisation was concerned with the treatment of detainees in Iraq, he said:" When we are faced with such conditions the ICRC intervenes with the occupation authorities."

[JailBush]

1. It seems likely that their stories will eventually surface.

If they don't come forward, some ivestigator ought to be able to track them down.

[Judi Lynn]

2. This story shouldn't be swept under the rug

More info. in this earlier story:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=267876

Hope to hear more about this.