Excerpt: “The autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq rejected a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report published Tuesday accusing Iraqi Kurds of using “electric shock” and other forms of torture to force child detainees into giving false confessions of involvement with the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL).
“Children told Human Rights Watch that in 2017 and 2018, [Kurdish] security officers, known as Asayish, used beatings, stress positions, and electric shock on boys in their custody. Most said they had no access to a lawyer and they were not allowed to read the confessions Asayish wrote and forced them to sign,” the watchdog group reported Tuesday.
https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2019/01/09/iraqi-kurds-rebuke-report-accusing-them-electrocuting-islamic-state-children/
“My confession says that I joined ISIS for 16 days, but actually, I didn’t join at all,” said a 16-year-old boy. “I said 16 days to stop the torture.”
