{"id":265476,"date":"2017-06-05T15:02:14","date_gmt":"2017-06-05T19:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=265476"},"modified":"2020-11-18T13:45:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T18:45:09","slug":"mosul-torture-exposed-iraqi-forces-abuses-filmed-graphic-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/fa\/mosul-torture-exposed-iraqi-forces-abuses-filmed-graphic-images\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosul torture exposed: Iraqi forces\u2019 abuses filmed (GRAPHIC IMAGES)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Iraqi forces, leading a vigorous battle to liberate Mosul from ISIS, have been exposed torturing and abusing their captives suspected of having terrorists links, according to a photographer who has been embedded with an elite unit of the Iraqi interior ministry.<\/p>\n

Having worked alongside the elite Emergency Response Division (ERD) in Iraq, freelance photographer Ali Arkady documented how, in their battle against jihadists, Iraqi security forces resorted to the very tactics that are comparable to the brutal practices of their nemesis, IS.<\/p>\n

The photographer, who earned the Iraqi soldiers\u2019 trust to cover the Mosul frontline, was allowed to witness some of the\u00a0\u201cinterrogation\u201d\u00a0sessions, intended to force confessions from prisoners of war accused of affiliation with the terrorist group.<\/p>\n

In one instance, the soldiers were torturing a man whose sons were suspected of working with IS in what is known as the strappado. Horrendous images show the detainee hanged by his arms to the ceiling, blindfolded, with officers standing next to him \u2013 and adding weights to his back to intensify the agony.<\/p>\n

Arkady eventually managed to flee the country, smuggling out the footage of abuse and torture, despite the Iraqi government\u2019s attempts to suppress negative reporting.<\/p>\n

RT\u2019s Murad Gazdiev, who travelled to the embattled city in March, has personal experience of how\u00a0\u201cundesirable footage\u201d\u00a0is confiscated and how journalists are \u201cthreatened with bans for negative coverage.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cInformation is contained. One of the biggest and deadliest battles of the 21st century, is actually also one of the most censored and suppressed,\u201d\u00a0Gazdiev, said, adding, that all journalists in Mosul are guided by Iraqi media officials.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the course of Iraq\u2019s tragic modern history, we have witnessed so many Iraqi citizens enduring the ugliest of assaults at the hands of combatants wearing a variety of uniforms,\u201d\u00a0Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in their reaction to Arkady\u2019s material, when it first emerged in the German Der Spiegel magazine.<\/p>\n

The gruesome scenes are reminiscent of the notorious Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse, some human rights organizations have noted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis kind of torture, we\u2019ve seen this kind of torture before. We\u2019ve seen, it is similar to Abu Ghraib,\u201d\u00a0Mohammed Serkal, UN coordinator of the SALAM for Democracy and Human Rights NGO, told RT.\u00a0\u201cAt the moment we see the United States getting involved in Mosul with other countries, which is not allowing other countries to get involved and oversee how the fight is taken place, how the Mosul is getting freed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAny human being should be treated as a human being regardless if they are terrorists or they are criminals. They have to be given a chance to speak about the crimes they committed,\u201d\u00a0Serkal added.<\/p>\n

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