Iraq: Intelligence Agency Admits Holding Hundreds Despite Previous Denials

(Beirut) – Iraq’s National Security Service (NSS), an Iraqi intelligence agency reporting to Iraq’s prime minister, has acknowledged for the first time that it is detaining individuals for prolonged periods of time, despite not having a clear mandate to do so, Human Rights Watch said today. NSS is holding more than 400 detainees in a detention facility in east Mosul. As of July 4, 2018, 427 men were there, some of whom had been held for more than seven months. Expand A blank NSS arrest warrant provided to Human Rights Watch.  © 2018 Private One person held there briefly in April described…

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