U.N. expert says torture in Iraq is "out of hand"
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Torture is rampant in Iraqi prisons and   police detention centers, and may be worse than under Saddam   Hussein's rule, a U.N. human rights investigator said on   Thursday .
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The United States is riding roughshod over human rights by outsourcing key anti-terror work in Iraq to private contractors, who operate beyond Iraqi law and outside the military chain of command, Amnesty International said Tuesday.
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Britain's former top Iraq expert at the United Nations said in previously secret testimony that most government officials did not believe Iraq posed a threat in the months leading to the U.S.-led invasion, according to a new report.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell  disputed U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's assertion that the  U.S.-led war in Iraq was illegal and said in an interview  published on Friday the comment was "not a very useful  statement to make at this point."
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The United Nations top anti-torture body   told the United States on Friday that any secret jails it ran   for foreign terrorism suspects, along with the Guantanamo Bay   facility, were illegal and should be closed.
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The top U.N. human rights official on Friday denounced the use of secret detention centers in the war on terrorism, and said governments must treat prisoners according to the law, avoiding torture and providing fair trials.
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Civil war or not, some human rights experts say Iraq is showing precursor signs of genocide
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Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq routinely torture detainees with methods including electric shock and hold them in overcrowded facilities without formal charges or access to legal aid, a human rights group said Tuesday.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan stated for the record that the US military attack of Iraq was illegal and a violation of the UN Charter.
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GENEVA, Nov 17 (IPS) - The British government has submitted a report to  the  U.N. Committee Against Torture acknowledging 17 possible  cases of torture  committed by its troops in Iraq, a source close  to the committee told IPS.
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When a Federal Bureau of Investigations officer says interrogations of Iraqi prisoners are too rough, that the techniques amount to âtorture,â youâd think somebody would listen.
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A country in chaos, a terrorized population under siege in neighborhoods polarized on sectarian lines or on the move in their hundreds of thousands to escape worsening violence. That was the picture of Iraq depicted in a new U.N. human rights report on Wednesday.
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The United Nations, citing evidence of   severe torture, said Iraq had become deadlier than ever, as   local Iraqi forces took charge of a southern province from   departing Italian soldiers on Thursday.
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Iraq could become a training ground for terrorists around the world, a US intelligence report warns.
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The general who compiled the latest report on the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by US military personnel at Iraq&#39;s Abu Ghraib prison said Wednesday that some of the 44 instances of abuse uncovered in the investigation amounted to torture.
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Top United Nations human rights official  Louise Arbour called on Tuesday for investigation of alleged  abuses in Falluja, Iraq, including disproportionate use of  force and the targeting of civilians.
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Iraqi authorities routinely torture  prisoners, a leading human rights group said Tuesday, citing  examples of abuse which will sound all too familiar to those  who suffered under Saddam Hussein.