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Human Rights Commission in Iraq calls on the House of Representatives to speed up legislation against the torture

28 Sep 2019

BAGHDAD, Sept 28 (alsharqiya) - The UN Human Rights Commission in Iraq on Saturday called on the House of Representatives to speed up legislation against torture, which was read on Tuesday, September 24, 2019. In this way, we have received reports, especially during preliminary investigations, and therefore documented the death of some of the detainees or injuries of physical disabilities and we in turn continue to demand from the concerned authorities to speed up the adoption of the law in order to reduce them within the positions and prisons Al-Shammari explained that the adoption of the law is important and necessary and must be comprehensive for the previous trials, which have received allegations of extracting confessions under duress in order to contribute to get out of the risk of condemnation and skepticism by human rights organizations that monitor the issue permanently and accurately