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Iraq probes allegations of rights violations
Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Services (CTS) advance in West Mosul's Al-Najjar neighbourhood on May 22, 2017, during the ongoing offensive to retake the area from Daesh militants.

It was purportedly perpetrated by its forces fighting the Daesh group in Mosul.

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Published: Wed 24 May 2017, 10:03 PM

Last updated: Thu 25 May 2017, 12:08 AM

Iraq's Interior Ministry said it launched an investigation into allegations of human rights violations perpetrated by its forces fighting the Daesh group in Mosul.
The allegations were first reported by Germany's Der Spiegel magazine last weekend. The report, authored by an Iraqi photographer reportedly embedded with the police unit, claims he witnessed killing, torture and rape of Daesh suspects.
The ministry's spokesman, Brig-Gen Saad Maan, said on Tuesday that the newspaper report identifies the Emergency Response Division - an elite unit that answers to the Interior Ministry and has been closely backed by the US-led coalition in the Mosul fight - as the perpetrator of the abuses. Maan did not give a time frame for the investigating but said "legal measures will be applied ... against wrongdoers".
An officer with the ERD said his unit is not authorised to comment and that all inquiries should be directed to the Interior Ministry.


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