Renewed Fears of Torture of Iraqi Detainees Increases, Following U.S. Handover, Says Amnesty International in New Report

Torture Widely Used by Iraqi Security Forces to Obtain "Confessions," Finds Report(New York) -- As the United States withdraws from Iraq, it has turned over to Iraqi government security forces tens of thousands of detainees held without trial with no safeguards in place to prevent widespread torture, ill-treatment and enforced disappearances, Amnesty International said in a new report today. Amnesty International is calling on the Iraqi government to either release detainees held for long periods without recognizable criminal charges against them, and without having been tried, or bring