BAGHDAD / NINA / - Member of the Human Rights Commission in Iraq, Judge Mashreq Naji, said that the increase in deaths due to torture in the prisons during the investigation, is a serious indicator of the decline of the human rights situation in Iraq.

Naji said in a statement that this indicator is contrary to what is referred to in the Constitution in Article (37 / c), which stipulated the prohibition of all types of psychological and physical torture and non-human treatment," and this is a breach of Iraq's international obligations under the International Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment of 1984, to which Iraq acceded in 2008, which provided for the criminalization of the practice of torture and methods of detention. It also referred to the measures to be taken by the signatories to the Convention, for the purpose of completing anti-torture legislation.

Naji called on the House of Representatives to speed up a legislation of the law against torture, and the government and the Minister of the Interior to take legal measures deterrent to those who caused such incidents./ End



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