Press Release

UNAMI Calls on Government to Investigate Report of Torture and Murder of Captured Terror Suspects in Mosul

21 January 2017

Baghdad, 21 January 2017

The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) calls on the Government of Iraq to investigate a video report circulating on social media sites which purportedly shows the brutal mistreatment and murder of at least three captured ISIL members in a retaken area between Intisar and Karma neighbourhoods of east Mosul at the hands of what appears to be Iraqi Security Forces Personnel.

Samir Ghattas

Samir Ghattas

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