French ISIL suspects transferred from Syria allege torture in Iraqi prisons

French lawyers for suspected ISIL members transferred from Syria accidental the men are suffering inhumane attraction successful Iraqi jails.

Lawyers for a radical of French nationals accused of being portion of ISIL (ISIS) and transferred by the United States from Syria to prisons successful Iraq accidental the inmates person been subjected to “torture and inhumane treatment” there.

French media reported connected Wednesday that lawyers Marie Dose and Matthieu Bagard visited the accused men successful Baghdad during a caller sojourn and said their clients had been subjected to ill-treatment successful detention successful Iraq.

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The maltreatment – including being slapped, strangled, handcuffed down their backs “with a pulley system” and threatened with rape with robust bars – was inflicted to “make them confess to their beingness successful Iraq” during their alleged clip successful ISIL, which would springiness the Iraqi justness strategy jurisdiction to effort them for their alleged crimes, the lawyers said.

The lawyers were quoted arsenic saying the accused ISIL members “assured america that they had not been successful Iraq earlier their apprehension successful Syria and their transportation to Baghdad”.

Deaths successful Syrian custody

During their two-day visit, which began connected Sunday, the lawyers, acting connected behalf of the families of the prisoners, said they met 13 of the 47 French nationals alleged to beryllium ISIL members who are being held successful Iraq.

The 13 men said they were arrested from 2017 to March 23, 2019, the time ISIL mislaid power of Baghouz, Syria, ending its last clasp connected territory.

They said they were imprisoned successful a jailhouse successful northeastern Syria nether challenging conditions, successful which 4 French inmates died owed to unwellness and “severe deficiencies”, and they were interrogated connected galore occasions by the FBI, CIA and different agencies believed to correspond France and the European Union.

US subject transfers

The lawyers made the comments amid the transportation of ample numbers of ISIL detainees from prisons and detention camps successful Syria to Iraq connected US subject flights.

The question of transfers was being carried retired aft a caller beforehand by Syrian authorities forces successful the northeast against the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which the US trained and supported to combat ISIL. The SDF has controlled camps and prisons holding suspected ISIL members for years.

The flight of ISIL detainees during the warring successful cities similar al-Shaddadi sparked concerns that they could regroup and airs a renewed information threat, prompting an statement for the US subject to tally flights transferring the prisoners to Iraqi jails.

The Associated Press quality bureau reported connected Sunday that 275 prisoners had been transferred truthful acold portion the Anadolu Agency reported that thousands were planned to beryllium transferred nether the agreement.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani connected Sunday said the transportation of the ISIL detainees was “temporary” and urged countries to repatriate their nationals.

In a abstracted connection connected Sunday, Iraq’s highest judicial assemblage said it would prosecute the transferred detainees aft a gathering of apical information and governmental officials.