Iraq: Flawed Prosecution of ISIS Suspects

Expand An ISIS suspect held for questioning by Iraqi forces near Mosul. © 2016 Safin Hamed/Getty Images (Baghdad) – The Iraqi government and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) are conducting thousands of trials of Islamic State suspects without a strategy to prioritize the worst abuses under Iraqi and international law, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The haphazard approach and rampant due process violations are likely to deny justice to the victims of the worst abuses during ISIS control of parts of Iraq. December 5, 2017 Report Flawed Justice Accountability for…

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