The ICJ called for an independent and impartial investigation into the treatment of detainees and the whole process of arresting and detaining people in Iraq to be swiftly set up by the Coalition Forces.The call came as the first court martial of a US soldier involved in the abuse of Iraqi detainees concluded in Baghdad today.
The CINAT is deeply concerned by the recent reports of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment inflicted on Iraqi detainees by US and UK military forces serving under the Coalition Provisional Authority.
In a letter to President Assad, the ICJ called for the release of Mr. Akhtam Naisse, a prominent human rights lawyer who was accused of “undermining the Revolution, Arab Unity and Socialism” for denouncing human rights violations.
At the 60th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, the ICJ participated to the general debate under item 8 on the question of human rights in the occupied Arab territories.
Five Sudanese lawyers who have been arbitrarily arrested and detained must be either charged or released, said the Centre for the Independence of Judges and Lawyers of the ICJ.
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Thailand: Strengthening accountability for torture and enforced disappearance in the southern border provinces