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| Amnesty: Iraq VP's Staffers Detained |
| 2012-01-29 |
| [An Nahar] Two women employed by the office of Iraq's runaway vice president Tareq al-Hashemi have been jugged by security forces and may be at risk of torture, rights group Hashemi, a Sunni, has been accused of running a death squad, a charge he denies. He is holed up in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, which has so far declined to hand him over to the central government. "One of the employees, Rasha Nameer Jaafer al-Hussein, was jugged from her parents' house in Storied Baghdad's ...located along the Tigris River, founded in the 8th century, home of the Abbasid Caliphate... Zayouna district on 1 January without a warrant," Amnesty said in an online statement on Friday. "The other employee, Bassima Saleem Kiryakos, was jugged on the same day after her house in the Green Zone in Storied Baghdad was raided by over 15 armed coppers wearing military uniform. The officers did not have an arrest warrant," it said. Kiryakos had already been jugged, beaten and released after three days shortly before her current detention, according to Amnesty. " |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 http://www.cafepress.com/wiserbud He has a great graphic for: 'Animosity International' |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2012-01-29 08:23 |