A/HRC/4/33/Add.1 Page 133 Para Country Date Type Mandate Allegations transmitted 2006, the body of Firas Naji ‘Abid Mikhlaf was found in al-Rostumiya District, Baghdad. His body was taken to Baghdad's main morgue. The autopsy suggests that he was strangled, two or three days after he was arrested. He apparently had injuries consistent with torture. 117. 17/08/06 AL TOR; Mohammad Hadi Al Yaqoubi, a student at the Institute of Technology, originally from the Ghazaliya area, Baghdad. On 5 April 2005, he went to visit friends at the College of Dentists, stopping at the Buratha Mosque on the way home for prayers. At the mosque gate, the guards searched him, but when he was about to enter the praying area a guard ordered him inside a room in the mosque. He was tied down on a bed and several guards started beating him with cables, wooden rods, and electric rods until he was unconscious. When he woke up, the torture resumed. A Shiite, Mohammad was forced to confess that he was a Sunni from the Ghazaliya area and sent by the Hamza Mosque. The treatment continued until sunset. His neck was stepped on, and he suffered a lost tooth and broken leg. He was finally released at the end of the day, and threatened against mentioning the incident to anyone. The next day Mohammad’s father took him to the headquarters of the Supreme Council of Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI). In the presence of a lawyer, photographs and a statement were taken. It was reported that Government Response

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