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| Ukraine Seamen Detail Iraq Prison Torture |
| 2004-06-25 |
| EFL from WND ... Tanker M/V Navstar captain Mykola Mazurenko and first mate Ivan Soshchenko were arrested in August by the British navy in the port of Umm Qasr for alleged oil smuggling and sentenced to seven years in prison by an Iraqi court. The two were extradited recently on condition they serve the rest of their sentence at home.... Prisoners were often "gassed with tear gas" and forced to "lick food straight from the floor," Karpachova said, citing letters she recently received from the seamen. Karpachova said the two "are in serious health condition." In Somalia tear gas was not even brought in country for crowd control because it is considered a chemical agent by the UN. I find it hard to beleive that the agent was used routinely in Abu Ghraib. Certainly an inventory check would quite easily be accomplished to test the ’validity of this part of their story. Markiyan Lubkivskiy, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, said the seamen’s claims would be investigated and "if it is true ... we will raise the case to the international level and do everything to protect the rights of our citizens including financial compensation." |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #1 It wasn't tear gas -- it was deodorant! |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-06-25 10:12:17 AM |