Iraq: Amnesty International’s submission to the UN Human Rights Committee, 115th session (19 October – 6 November 2015)

Amnesty International is submitting this briefing to the UN Human Rights Committee ahead of its examination in October 2015 of Iraq’s fifth periodic report on its implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The submission focuses mainly on arbitrary arrest and detentions, enforced disappearances, torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (other ill-treatment), abuses within the administration of justice and freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.

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