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Hana Ibrahim, testifies while holding a newspaper with US Secratary of State Condeleezza Rice pictured as a vampire during the second day session of the World Tribunal on Iraq Istanbul session held in Topkapi Palace.(AFP/Cem Turkel)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050625/wl_mideast_afp/iraqturkeytribunalISTANBUL (AFP) - The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI), an anti-war grouping of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), intellectuals and writers, heard witnesses condemn the United States for rights abuses and the worsening plight of Iraqi women.
A former US Air Force pilot called on US troops in Iraq to "resist" the orders of their superior officers in an "illegal war".
"Today Iraq has been turned into a vast prison," lawyer Amal Sawadi told the hearing.
"They come to people's houses in the middle of the night, when everyone is asleep, blow in the door. They point their weapons in people's faces ... they search women in front of their families, they smash everything in the house."
She said lawyers had problems getting news of their imprisoned clients and spoke of rapes and humiliations which amounted to the "systematic practice of torture