Iraq’s Maliki Accused of Detaining, Torturing Hundreds of Political Opponents
Friday, 20 January 2012 07:48
'Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki’s security forces have detained and brutally tortured more than 1,000 political opponents in secret prisons and denied them access to legal counsel, according to allegations by Iraq’s former prime minister.
Ayad Allawi, the secular Shiite Muslim leader of the opposition Iraqiya bloc in parliament, has formally submitted these allegations to Iraq’s supreme judicial council.
Allawi also claims that Maliki aims to extract false confessions that implicate his political rivals and justify taking legal action against them. Some of the confessions obtained through torture claimed that Allawi plotted to foment violent unrest around the country.'
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