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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.
 Sami al-Saei said he heard the Israeli prison guards who raped him laughing through the assault,... |
 Huda Abu Abed feared only long waits and Israeli checks when she was told she could... | ||
 The Israeli Prison Service has begun preparations to introduce the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners, Israeli... |
 At least 12 Palestinians were killed and several more injured across the Gaza Strip on Sunday... |
