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July 18, 2011

Secret Iraqi Prison, Torture Facility Uncovered In Green Zone 
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The Los Angeles Times has revealed elite units, controlled by Prime
Minister Nouri Maliki's military office, continue to operate a secret
jail in Baghdad's Green Zone where prisoners routinely face torture to
extract confessions. Iraq's Justice Ministry ordered the prison shut
down in March, but scores of prisoners have been held there since then.
In interviews with the International Committee of the Red Cross, former
prisoners reported beatings, electric shocks to the body, suffocation
using plastic bags, scalding with boiling water or burning with
cigarettes, being hung from ceilings with hands tied behind the back,
the pulling out of fingernails and being left naked for hours.



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