Rights Group Says Kurdistan Security Forces Torturing Children

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Rights Group Says Kurdistan Security Forces Torturing Children

Human Rights Watch says that security forces in Iraqi Kurdistan have been "torturing children" to force them to confess to having links to Islamic State militants.

The U.S.-based group said in a report released on January 8 that it had interviewed 23 teenage boys who had been charged with, or convicted of, belonging to Islamic State.

The group said that 16 of them said they had been tortured during questioning. Some said they were beaten with electric cables, plastic pipes, or rods; others said they were subjected to electric shocks.

Read more at: https://www.rferl.org/a/rights-group-kurdistan-security-forces-torturing-children/29699095.html