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Larry Kaplow
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Apr 30, 2009 09:34 AM
A new United Nations report on human rights
in Iraq cites Iraqi prisons for continued torture of detainees, incarceration for months without
charges and warns, as it has in the past, that “security may not be sustainable
unless significant steps are taken in the area of human rights such as
strengthening the rule of law and addressing impunity.” The report (PDF), covers mainly the last half of 2008.
Some of the main points, written in the typically
understated voice of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI):
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