'No liberation without torture' Report
As military operations to reclaim Fallujah (IS) commenced last month on 22 May, media outlets applauded the victory secured by pro-government forces, after liberating the city from Islamic State (IS) terrorists.
Despite the scale of rights violations perpetrated throughout the campaign - by the same forces - Haider Al-Abadi’s government insists that violators represent just a few ‘bad apples’.
Beneath the surface of the prime minister's words is a reality commonly swept beneath the rug - the systematic culture of violence that characterises the actions of state forces and allied militias.
FRB conducted a series of interviews with notable tribal leaders and locals in the area of Saqlawiyah and Al-Azraqiyah, to ascertain to the fate of local men kidnapped and savagely tortured by security forces and Iranian-backed militias.
As military operations to reclaim Fallujah (IS) commenced last month on 22 May, media outlets applauded the victory secured by pro-government forces, after liberating the city from Islamic State (IS) terrorists.
Despite the scale of rights violations perpetrated throughout the campaign - by the same forces - Haider Al-Abadi’s government insists that violators represent just a few ‘bad apples’.
Beneath the surface of the prime minister's words is a reality commonly swept beneath the rug - the systematic culture of violence that characterises the actions of state forces and allied militias.
FRB conducted a series of interviews with notable tribal leaders and locals in the area of Saqlawiyah and Al-Azraqiyah, to ascertain to the fate of local men kidnapped and savagely tortured by security forces and Iranian-backed militias.
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