‘Many women’ languish in U.S., Iraqi jails

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http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news/2006-12-06/kurd1.htm

‘Many women’ languish in U.S., Iraqi jails

An Iraqi female minister has urged the ministries of interior and defense as well the U.S. occupation troops to apply international law procedures when dealing jailed women in Iraq.

The call from Minister of State Fatin Mahmoud is the first official admission that that the number of incarcerated Iraqi women is increasing and that their conditions are worsening.

Mahmoud’s revelation contradicts earlier Iraqi and U.S. reports that there were no women in their jails in the country.

Mahamoud declined to give a figure of the number of Iraqi women behind bars but doubted whether the jailers were applying basic human rights in their dealings with them.