|
IRAQ. SECRET EXECUTIONS STILL CARRIED OUT
October 7, 2008: the Independent learned that secret executions are being carried out in Iraq in the prisons run by Nouri al-Maliki's government.
The hangings are carried out regularly, from a wooden gallows in a small, cramped cell, in Saddam Hussein's old intelligence headquarters at Kazimiyah.
There is no public record of these killings in what is now called Baghdad's "high-security detention facility" but most of the victims, there have been hundreds since America overthrown Saddam’s regime, are said to be insurgents, given the same summary justice they mete out to their own captives.
"There's a cell with a bar below the ceiling with a rope over it and a bench on which the victim stands with his hands tied," a former British official, told the Independent last week.
"I've been in the cell, though it was always empty. But not long before I visited, they'd taken this guy there to hang him".
The condemned prisoners in Kazimiyah, a Shia district of Baghdad, are said to include rapists and murderers as well as insurgents. (Fonti: The Independent, 07/10/2008)
|
