[news] Iraqi Police Commit Rapes

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

At least nine Iraqi organizations...as well as Amnesty International...have documented the sexualized torture of Iraqi women while in police custody...[S]exual violence is woven into the fabric of the civil war now raging across Iraq. According to Iraqi human rights advocate and writer Haifa Zangana, the first question asked of female detainees in Iraq is, "Are you Sunni or Shia?" The second is, "Are you a virgin?"

  


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