In a 105-page report, No One is Safe: the Abuse of Women in Iraq’s Justice System, HRW said: “The legacy of abuse inherited from Saddam Hussein’s rule – torture, the death penalty and extrajudicial executions – lives on in the criminal justice system of Iraq today.”
Women are arrested on the basis of secret testimony, detained without warrants to compel male relatives suspected of crimes to surrender, and caught in mass round-ups during security sweeps and held for months or years without a court appearance.
Charges are often manufactured, convictions based on coerced confessions, and sentences passed by colluding judges after abuses have been perpetrated. Women are held after release orders are issued until bribes have been paid. LINK
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