Tuesday, Sep 08th
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Human Rights Inmates tell of sexual abuse and beatings in Iraq's overcrowded juvenile prison system
Hundreds of children, some as young as nine, are being held in appalling conditions in Baghdad's prisons, sleeping in sweltering temperatures in overcrowded cells without working fans, no daily access to showers, and subject to frequent sexual abuse by guards, current and former prisoners say.
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