News Source: Alternet
| about 1 year ago
Reports that U.S. and Iraqi government jails hold nearly 100,000 prisoners, most of them languishing there without trial and proof of wrong doing, are appalling. Most arrests in Iraq whether by U.S. or Iraqi troops are arbitrary, carried out with...
News Source: Truthdig
| about 1 year ago
Every morning for a year and a half, Tariq Razzaq has been coming to the decrepit entrance of a neighborhood maintenance office in southern Baghdad with a single goal in mind: to get a job...It’s not that Razzaq, a 29-year-old former soldier in...
News Source: Middle East Security News
| about 1 year ago
An Iraqi court resumed session Monday in the case against former Iraqi Deputy Premier Tariq Aziz for the execution of several merchants in 1992. Aziz, a Christian, and seven other defendants face war crimes charges in an Iraqi court for ordering the...