My husband is being tortured in Baghdad jail, says London Iraqi

[sabra]

Source: this is london

A woman from north-west London has asked David Cameron to help her husband who she claims has suffered months of torture in an Iraqi prison.

Rabiha al-Qassab, 63, who lives in Kilburn, said she worries “every minute of every day” about her husband Ramzi Shehab Ahmad, 68, who is being held without trial in Baghdad.

She claims that he has been suffocated, given electric shocks, beaten and hit with iron rods since he was arrested and imprisoned without charge in the Iraqi capital last year.

“I think the British Government can do many things,” she said. “They can tell Nouri al-Maliki (the Iraqi prime minister) about what has happened, not because my husband is British but because he is a human being.”

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Mr Shehab Ahmad, a former officer in the old Iraqi army, was forced to leave Iraq in 1992 after he was involved in a plot to overthrow Saddam Hussein.

He and his wife moved to London in 2002 and later gained British citizenship. But in November last year Mr Shehab Ahmad returned to Iraq after one of his sons was arrested in the northern city of Mosul.

Read more: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23877150-british-man-tortured-and-held-without-trial-in-iraq.do

[Solly Mack]

1. k/r

[Soylent Brice]

2. "Within days they were both arrested on suspicion of terrorism"

a guy in exile for trying to overthrow Saddam, who went back to help his son, and they're terrorists??

i don't understand this world anymore.