Human Rights Watch condemns situation in Iraq - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Ali Mamouri

Ali Mamouri

Feb 7, 2014

An empty cell is seen during a media tour arranged by the Iraqi authorities at a prison, known as Camp Honor, inside Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone May 17, 2012. Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday Iraqi authorities were still running a jail they said had been shut over a year ago after reports of prisoners being beaten and electrocuted, but the government denied this, saying the site was empty. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ - Tags: CRIME LAW) - RTR3272R — An empty cell is seen during a media tour arranged by the Iraqi authorities at a prison, known as Camp Honor, Baghdad, May 17, 2012. — REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen

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A boy sells plastic flowers at a market in central Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad November 5, 2011. In Iraq's northern oil city Kirkuk, home to a volatile mix of Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen, politicians and residents fear a possible explosion of ethnic conflict when American troops leave. With prospects that U.S. forces will leave Iraq by Dec. 31, the city turns uncertainly to Iraqi and Kurdish security forces to keep the peace in an area contested by Iraq's central government and semi-autonomous

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