Iraqi Human Rights Minister Resigns in Protest
by TChris
More fallout from the abuse of Iraqi prisoners:
Iraq's U.S.-appointed human rights minister said Tuesday he had resigned to protest abuses of Iraqi detainees by American guards, and the interior minister demanded that Iraqi officials be allowed to participate in the running of prisons.
The human rights minister, Abdul-Basat al-Turki, said that he told Paul Bremer about human rights violations last December, but says he never imagined that the abuses were as bad as those depicted in pictures taken at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison.
In response to complaints about abusive treatment, the military has discontinued the practice of placing hoods over the heads of Iraqis who are being arrested or detained.
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