Walid fue declarado inocente y un ‘sospechoso equivocado’ después de haber sido sometido a todo tipo de torturas que le provocaron la pérdida de un ojo y sendas lesiones permanentes en la espalda y en la rodilla.
Payout to 71 former prisoners is first of its kind from a defence contractor active in Iraq: Iraqi prisoners who allege they were tortured in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq are being paid $5.8m by the subsidiary of a US defence contractor accused of complicity in their mistreatment.
by salah al hashimi and Tahrir Swift on 09-01-2013
"I would like to draw your attention, and that of the British Government, to a worrying and rapidly developing situation in Iraq." Open letter from Iraqi/British citizens Salah al Hashimi and Tahrir Swift to British MP
by Tahrir Swift and Dirk Adriaensens on 08-01-2013
Iraqi MP Ali Shubbar, member of the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee, accused Iraqi female inmates in Iraqi prisons of "sexual lust" and continued by claiming that they “expose themselves to the police”. He also said that “some prisoners have sexual thirst. So they present themselves to the police to have sex with them and then they later claim that they have been raped.”