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Iraqi Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi speaks during
a press conference in the Kurdistan regional capital
Erbil on December 20, 2011 Photo: Getty
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January 28, 2012
BAGHDAD, — Two women employed by the
office of Iraq's fugitive Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi
have been detained by security forces and may be at
risk of torture, rights group Amnesty International
said.
Hashemi, a Sunni, has been accused of running a
death squad, a charge he denies. He is holed up in
Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, which has so far
declined to hand him over to the central government.
"One of the employees, Rasha Nameer Jaafer
al-Hussein, was arrested from her parents’ house in
Baghdad’s Zayouna district on 1 January without a
warrant," Amnesty said in an online statement on
Friday.
"The other employee, Bassima Saleem Kiryakos, was
arrested on the same day after her house in the
Green Zone in Baghdad was raided by over 15 armed
security men wearing military uniforms. The officers
did not have an arrest warrant," it said.
Kiryakos had already been arrested, beaten and
released after three days shortly before her current
detention,www.ekurd.net
according to Amnesty.
"Amnesty International fears both women may be at
risk of torture or other ill-treatment.
It is believed their arrest is in connection with an
arrest warrant against... Hashemi," it said.
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