Iraqis tortured at secret Baghdad prison, says watchdog

Iraqis held at a secret prison in Baghdad were routinely tortured using whips, electric shocks and rape, according to an investigation by Human Rights Watch.

The organisation said it had interviewed 42 men who were among about 300 detainees transferred from the secret facility in the old Muthanna airport in west Baghdad to al-Rusafa into a special block of 19 cage-type cells over the past several weeks. The existence of the secret prison wasrevealed in the Los Angeles Times.

All the detainees interviewed, Human Rights Watch said, described the same methods of torture.

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