Wednesday, Aug 05th
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Human Rights Inmates tell of sexual abuse and beatings in Iraq's overcrowded juvenile prison system
Hundreds of children, some as young as nine, are being held in appalling conditions in Baghdad's prisons, sleeping in sweltering temperatures in overcrowded cells without working fans, no daily access to showers, and subject to frequent sexual abuse by guards, current and former prisoners say.
 As first light reaches the scattered tents and animal pens of Ras al-Ahmar in the northern... |
 Dr Mazen Rantisi, a 71-year-old Palestinian physician popularly described as the “doctor of the poor”, says... | ||
 Israeli ministers and lawmakers led a march towards the Gaza Strip on Sunday, calling for the... |
 An estimated 26,000 children who entered the U.S. without parents or guardians are expected to be... |
