Rights Group Says Iraq Torture Continues

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Rights Group Says Iraq Torture Continues
Torture of Iraq Detainees Continues Despite Promises After Abu Ghraib Scandal, Rights Group Says
By JENNIFER QUINN
The Associated Press

LONDON - Detainees in Iraq are still being tortured receiving electric shocks and beatings with plastic cables despite U.S. promises to prevent such abuse after the Abu Ghraib scandal, a report by an international rights group said Monday.

The U.S. military said in response that all detainees are treated according to international conventions and Iraqi law.

Amnesty International said interviews in Jordan and Iraq with former detainees, relatives of current detainees and lawyers involved in detainees' cases in Iraq showed that prisoner mistreatment has not ceased since the mistreatment revelations at Abu Ghraib prison three years ago.

"Since Abu Ghraib, the multinational force and the United States in particular promised they would put safeguards in place," Amnesty spokeswoman Nicole Choueiry said. "But the (lack of) legal safeguards are still an obstacle to detainees getting and enjoying their human rights."

In the Abu Ghraib case, photographs from 2003 showed Iraqi inmates being abused, triggering worldwide outrage that led to military trials and prison sentences for several lower-ranking American soldiers.

In the new allegations, former detainees claimed they were beaten with plastic cables, given electric shocks and made to stand in a flooded room as an electrical current was passed through the water, London-based Amnesty said.

Its report said the interviews were conducted last year and this year.


http://abcnews.go.com/International/print?id=1690284

[buff2]

1. I saw that on 60 minutes tonight.

They talked about how they beat and killed two of them in just one week. We are occupying another country and running a chamber of horrors over there. It's a disgrace what our troops are doing and it being called "spreading freedom and democracy".

Well,getting killed IS being free of the torture on a daily basis. No wonder we are hated so much. That bu$h bastard and his evil thugs have ruined this country beyond repair. Will they ever have to pay for all this shit they are doing? It certainly doesn't look like it. :grr:

[Swamp Rat]

2. We The People are gonna pay for Bushler's sins

[buff2]

3. Yes we are.

I am truly scared for all of us. :scared:

[I_Make_Mistakes]

4. Have to agree, they control the media, but not there (the world) n/t