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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
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