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UN committee investigating the acts of torture in Iraq
July 29, 2015
It asked the Committee against Torture of the United Nations from Iraqi officials and clear answers to the country's torture and human rights violations with impunity, with the impunity of the perpetrators from accountability and punishment.
Committee Chairman Claudio Grossman directed the Iraqi delegation asked "Is there one person in Iraq was sentenced on charges of torturing a man? Are there five people? or ten? " In reference to the impunity of perpetrators of such acts of punishment.
Said Alessio Bruni -oho another member of the Alganh- The Iraqi criminal law does not provide a definition of appropriate tortured, and then can not make suitable for perpetrators trial, and added: "How can judge a person is convicted of acts do not have a definition? This is what puzzles me, if you can give me an example of this is the best of any legal debate. "
These questions and comes as part of a long list of concerns that will try to Iraqi delegation headed by Abdul-Karim al-Janabi, Undersecretary of the Minister of Human Rights to answer them in a second session on Thursday, said al-Janabi Committee that he would tomorrow the answers to most questions, if not all.
The list also includes questions about the possible existence of secret detention centers and are there to compensate victims of torture and how it can be interpreted trials lasted several minutes and ended with the provisions of death.
Iraq and ratified the Charter of the United Nations anti-torture in 2011, but rights groups such as Amnesty International says that the practice of torture is still practiced without noticeable change since Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi Authority successor to Nuri al-Maliki in late 2014.
She said Saadia Belmir (of Moroccan origin) -the another member of the Committee, which includes ten Mstkulain- experts that the judicial system in Iraq needs a complete overhaul, and added that he can not build confidence on the judicial system strayed from the basic goal.
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July 29, 2015
It asked the Committee against Torture of the United Nations from Iraqi officials and clear answers to the country's torture and human rights violations with impunity, with the impunity of the perpetrators from accountability and punishment.
Committee Chairman Claudio Grossman directed the Iraqi delegation asked "Is there one person in Iraq was sentenced on charges of torturing a man? Are there five people? or ten? " In reference to the impunity of perpetrators of such acts of punishment.
Said Alessio Bruni -oho another member of the Alganh- The Iraqi criminal law does not provide a definition of appropriate tortured, and then can not make suitable for perpetrators trial, and added: "How can judge a person is convicted of acts do not have a definition? This is what puzzles me, if you can give me an example of this is the best of any legal debate. "
These questions and comes as part of a long list of concerns that will try to Iraqi delegation headed by Abdul-Karim al-Janabi, Undersecretary of the Minister of Human Rights to answer them in a second session on Thursday, said al-Janabi Committee that he would tomorrow the answers to most questions, if not all.
The list also includes questions about the possible existence of secret detention centers and are there to compensate victims of torture and how it can be interpreted trials lasted several minutes and ended with the provisions of death.
Iraq and ratified the Charter of the United Nations anti-torture in 2011, but rights groups such as Amnesty International says that the practice of torture is still practiced without noticeable change since Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi Authority successor to Nuri al-Maliki in late 2014.
She said Saadia Belmir (of Moroccan origin) -the another member of the Committee, which includes ten Mstkulain- experts that the judicial system in Iraq needs a complete overhaul, and added that he can not build confidence on the judicial system strayed from the basic goal.
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