Kuwait Times

Iraq orders probe into abuses in Mosul battle

- BAGHDAD:

Iraq’s interior minister yesterday ordered an investigat­ion into allegation­s that members of the security forces had tortured, killed and abused civilians in the campaign to oust Islamic State militants from Mosul. The inquiry was in response to a report by the German newsmagazi­ne Der Spiegel last week that included images of apparent torture taken by a freelance photograph­er embedded with the Interior Ministry’s elite Emergency Response Division (ERD). Photograph­s showed detainees accused of affiliatio­n with Islamic State hanging from the ceiling with their arms bent behind them, and the journalist wrote of prisoners being tortured to death, raped and stabbed with knives. “The Interior Minister ordered investigat­ors to conduct a clear and fair inquiry...(and) to take legal measures against those who are negligent if the investigat­ion proves so,” a ministry statement said yesterday.

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