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The venue of the Al-Sweady Inquiry is seen on the first day of the inquiry, in central London. (R)
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 20, 2013 | Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat–An Iraqi man testified on Monday in front of a committee investigating allegations of atrocities in Iraq in 2004, in which he described how his son’s corpse had been mutilated. Maza’l Karim Al-Sweady was the first of some 60 Iraqi witnesses...
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Prison inmates in an Iraqi jail in Nassiriyah. (Atef Hassan/Reuters)
by Fahd al-Zayabi and Hamza Mustapha | Jan 21, 2013 | Middle East
Riyadh/Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat – A Saudi prisoner, who wishes to remain anonymous, informed Asharq Al-Awsat in a telephone interview from Iraq that Saudi prisoners have been subjected to what he described as “racist” abuse from prison guards. He claimed that...
