Claims that British military personnel committed sexual and physical abuse of Iraqi civilians are being investigated by the Ministry of Defence.
Lawyers acting for former Iraqi detainees are calling for a full public inquiry into 33 abuse claims made during British military involvement in Iraq, among the allegations is that two soldiers raped a 16-year-old boy [...]

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As a result of the international outcry following the video shown on ABC News on April 22, 2009 of  Sheikh Issa bin Zayed al Nahyan torturing an Afghan grain dealer, UAE officials have announced that the sheik has been put under “house arrest” and prevented from leaving the country while the Ministry of Justice conducts [...]

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Ms. Zarina Marri, a 23-year-old schoolteacher from Balochistan province, was arrested in late 2005, and has been held incommunicado in an army torture cell at Karachi, the capital of Sindh province. She has been repeatedly raped by the military officers and is being used as a sex slave, to induce arrested nationalist activists to sign [...]

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Amnesty International today accused the Mauritanian government of routine and systematic torture, saying that the security apparatus has adopted torture as the preferred method of investigation and repression.
“Torture is used against all categories of prisoners in Mauritania – whether they are suspected Islamists, soldiers accused of involvement in a coup, or those detained for simple [...]

Tags: Mauritania, Morocco, Torture

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