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| Iraqi army detainee tortured to death in Ninewa |
| 2011-02-23 |
| NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: An Iraqi army’s detainee died on Tuesday from torture injures, Ninewa governor said, calling the parliament and the general commander of the armed force to punish officers and those involved in the incident. “We received a report on Monday evening (Feb. 21) from the anti-terror department in Ninewa, which indicates that Khaled Walied Seif al-Din Ayoub, born in 1976, died at prison,” Atheel al-Nujiefi told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The dead man was transferred by the 2nd division of the Iraqi army to the anti-terror department, which sent him to the hospital,” he explained. “The detainee had been arrested in accordance with an arrest warrant issued after arresting him not before it and then he was tortured,” he continued, pointing out that the forensic medicine’s report asserts that the body bore signs of torture. |
| Posted by:Steve White |