March 09, 2006
14,000 Detained Without Trial in Iraq'
US and UK forces in Iraq have detained thousands of people without charge or trial for long periods and there is growing evidence of Iraqi security forces torturing detainees, Amnesty International said today.
In a new report published today, the human rights group criticised the US-led multinational force for interning some 14,000 people.
Around 3,800 people have been held for over a year, while another 200 have been detained for more than two years, the report - Beyond Abu Ghraib: detention and torture in Iraq -
press release | The Guardian via Truthout
~That no Homeland politicians can (dare) make the treatment of detainees an issue to help with their elections says what about the American people? It's free press? The function of the Pentagon in American life? Christian morality? I don't have a clue, but something's not right.
[2004 blogged Christmas costume-party photo from google\ not Amnesty or the Guardian]