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Guardian: Iraq's new industry of torture and corruption
Monday, 16 December / 2 January 2012 08:33
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Britain's Guardian newspaper published a detailed investigation written by its correspondent Ghaith Abdul-Ahad Corruption is rampant in Iraq, particularly in the Ministry of Interior and its security agencies entitled "" Iraq's new industry of torture and corruption. "
Abdul Ahad says that corruption is widespread in Iraq, to the point turned into a profitable business where the purchase of military and security positions in Iraq with money and that many officials and wanted to share the corruption and bribes.
Bribes in return for freedom
Inherited by the story of an Iraqi mother lost four sons and one of them killed by al Qaeda and the other three were abducted by militia, a Shiite whose fate remains unknown so far, and the fifth son of the only surviving detained for a period of five years and finally released after its mother to raise the amount of two thousand dollars of its neighbors and acquaintances and paid to a senior security official, although the judiciary had ordered that five months ago, but the security official keeps him detained until it was paid "well known".
The reporter interviews conducted with fifteen prisoners were released, everyone said they had paid bribes to buy their freedom, and prisoners are subjected to various forms of torture, in order that their parents pay bribes to ease the torture which they are exposed.
The reporter met an officer in the security unit raises her horror among the people enter into transactions with the families of the detainees meet against some of the requests, such as to stop the torture of detainees, or deliver some personal items to another prison.
And moves the reporter for the officer as saying, "We Hyadion no longer capturing people for sectarian reasons now capturing the Sunnis and Shiites is no difference for us," explained the officer how to suspend detainees from the ceiling and beat them until they lose consciousness and "turning to a dead body" to learn what is attributed to them of the charges.
The officer says that "the situation is very similar to what was in the days of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein."
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Monday, 16 December / 2 January 2012 08:33
BBC
Britain's Guardian newspaper published a detailed investigation written by its correspondent Ghaith Abdul-Ahad Corruption is rampant in Iraq, particularly in the Ministry of Interior and its security agencies entitled "" Iraq's new industry of torture and corruption. "
Abdul Ahad says that corruption is widespread in Iraq, to the point turned into a profitable business where the purchase of military and security positions in Iraq with money and that many officials and wanted to share the corruption and bribes.
Bribes in return for freedom
Inherited by the story of an Iraqi mother lost four sons and one of them killed by al Qaeda and the other three were abducted by militia, a Shiite whose fate remains unknown so far, and the fifth son of the only surviving detained for a period of five years and finally released after its mother to raise the amount of two thousand dollars of its neighbors and acquaintances and paid to a senior security official, although the judiciary had ordered that five months ago, but the security official keeps him detained until it was paid "well known".
The reporter interviews conducted with fifteen prisoners were released, everyone said they had paid bribes to buy their freedom, and prisoners are subjected to various forms of torture, in order that their parents pay bribes to ease the torture which they are exposed.
The reporter met an officer in the security unit raises her horror among the people enter into transactions with the families of the detainees meet against some of the requests, such as to stop the torture of detainees, or deliver some personal items to another prison.
And moves the reporter for the officer as saying, "We Hyadion no longer capturing people for sectarian reasons now capturing the Sunnis and Shiites is no difference for us," explained the officer how to suspend detainees from the ceiling and beat them until they lose consciousness and "turning to a dead body" to learn what is attributed to them of the charges.
The officer says that "the situation is very similar to what was in the days of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein."
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