The Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights said that the national governmental institutions responsible for prisons and the safety of prisoners should visit the prisons and know their situation and the extent to which the institutions concerned apply human rights standards in prisons.
The Observatory also said, "Reports and information indicate the existence of serious violations of human rights in some prisons in the country and these are serious indicators that require urgent intervention by the government of Adel Abdul-Mahdi to find out the truth of those claims".
A woman in her sixth decade in the city of Mosul said in an interview with the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights that "reports from detainees released from Muthanna airport prison in Baghdad told her that her son (she refused to name him for fear of his safety) was tortured by prison guards and continuously".
She also said: "I went to Baghdad to meet him but was denied entry to Muthanna airport on the pretext that security measures prevent this. They also told me that my son was not in prison, but the fact was that our neighbors and relatives were with my son in prison and told me how much he had been tortured".
The Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights said that "two other families spoke orally to the Observatory, but they refused to give any information for publication. They talked about the torture of detainees in the prisons of the Kurdistan region of Iraq and the prisons of the federal government.
"The member of the Office of the Human Rights in Iraq Ali al-Bayati Human Rights Commission" the continuation of cases of torture in government prisons in general and the prisons of Mosul in particular".
He also said that "the government does not deny the existence of torture in its prisons, and there are (14) thousand complaints received by the public prosecution about violations and violations of prisoners in all of Iraq."
A member of the monitoring network at the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights in Salahaddin province, said: "I received a report from a prisoner who was released and was imprisoned in the anti-terrorism prison in Salah al-Din province, he talked about the horrific torture cases he and the prisoners who were with him and the types of torture and methods he explained to me, Can be conceived or painted".
"He was beaten daily with a stick no more than a meter long, tied his legs with a rope, then slept on his abdomen and raised his feet in the upper direction," he said, "every time he shout, he was beaten on the head with the guards' feet".
The Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights said that "the indirect testimonies we have obtained indicate torture in Iraqi prisons, which requires quick and urgent action by the Iraqi government to help these victims who are in places that are not reached by human rights organizations and not received by media organizations".
In 2017, the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of two detainees within 70 days of Karbala province. The government then demanded compliance with the Convention against Torture, but no real government action was taken to prevent the recurrence of such acts.
"Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides that no one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment," said the Iraqi Observatory for Human Rights.
