U.N. Report Criticizes Iraq on Detainees’ Treatment

04/26/2007

By KIRK SEMPLE
NY Times
Published: April 26, 2007


BAGHDAD, April 25 — The United Nations accused the Iraqi government on Wednesday of failing to “seriously address” problems of detainee abuse, including torture, and to ensure the timely and fair prosecution of detainees.

In its latest human rights report on Iraq, the organization expressed special concern about the “apparent lack” of judicial guarantees for suspects arrested during the latest security plan for Baghdad, which went into effect in mid-February. The emergency regulations governing the joint Iraqi and American crackdown permit arrests without warrants and open-ended pretrial detentions, the report said.

More than 3,000 people were taken into custody under the security plan during its first seven weeks, the United Nations said. An Iraqi government monitoring group reported late last month that hundreds of people detained in the security crackdown had been jammed into woefully overcrowded detention centers.

The United Nations report also criticized the government

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