Reported Abuse in Iraqi Judicial System
March 27th, 2008 by Sharlina
Los Angeles Times’s Kimi Yoshino observes the lack of protection of constitutional rights for hundreds of Iraqi women, describing in detail the varieties of human rights violations that go undetected every day. Meanwhile, Shaun Waterman analyzes in the Middle East Times the latest from the U.S. military saying that “it is taking steps to alleviate conditions at the Iraqi-run city jail in Fallujah after recent visitors found a filthy, overcrowded facility where prisoners had to provide their own food.” Waterman argues that this “demonstrates how far Iraq’s judicial and penal institutions still have to go under U.S. tutelage before they meet minimally acceptable standards.”
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