'Punishment Without Trial'
Don't miss the Friday edition of the Guardian and the article Punishment Without Trial:
Hundreds of Iraqis civilians are being held in makeshift jails run by US troops - many without being charged or even questioned. And in these prisons are children whose parents have no way of locating them. Jonathan Steele reveals the grim reality of coalition justice in Baghdad.
According to Steele, the problems generate from conditions such as these:
...arrests followed by incompetent interrogation, or none at all; the lack of an efficient trial-or-release system; shocking prison conditions; constant buck-passing; and sloppy paperwork by the coalition authorities. The result is that in almost every case families take weeks or months to find out where their loved ones are being detained.
Steele provides plenty of examples of kids taken and held for unduly long periods of time. Here's one:
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