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To: JohnM who wrote (37656)8/13/2002 4:46:58 PM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
>>Political prisoners and detainees were subjected to brutal forms of torture.
The bodies of many of those executed had visible signs of torture, including
the gouging out of the eyes, when they were returned to their families.
Common methods of physical torture included electric shocks or cigarette
burns to various parts of the body, pulling out of fingernails, rape, long
periods of suspension by the limbs, beating with cables, falaqa (beating on
the soles of the feet) and piercing of hands with an electric drill.
Psychological torture included threats to arrest and harm relatives of the
detainee or to rape a female relative in front of the detainee, mock
executions and long periods in solitary confinement.

In June Najib al-Salihi, a former army general who fled Iraq in 1995
and joined the Iraqi opposition, was sent a videotape showing the
rape of a female relative. Shortly afterwards he reportedly received a
telephone call from the Iraqi intelligence service, asking him whether
he had received the gift and informing him that his relative was in
their custody.

Amputation of the tongue was reportedly approved by the authorities in
mid-2000 as a new penalty for slander or abusive remarks about the
President or his family.

In September a man reportedly had his tongue amputated by
members of Feda'iyye Saddam in Baghdad for slandering the
President. He was said to have been driven around after the
punishment while information about his alleged offence was
broadcast through a loudspeaker.<<

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