In a session of the Iraqi Parliament, members of Maliki’s slate attacked MPs revealing the hideous tortures carried out against women in Maliki’s prisons. Following these scuffles Iraqi Parliament Speaker Osama Al-Nujaifi first suspended the session for a few minutes, then had no choice but to end and postpone the session to Saturday.
Baghdad TV reported another verbal fight took place in the Iraqi Parliament between the Hassan Al-Sanid, chairman of the Defense and Security Commission and Salim Al-Jabouri, chairman of the Human Rights Commission following a report delivered by Al Jabouri in the Parliament on the torture of women in Iraqi prisons. This report had registered more than 1,130 women prisoners being held in prisons and detention centers affiliated to the ministries of Interior, Defense, Judiciary and Labor and Social Affairs.
“The Human Rights Commission stands against any human rights violations on any Iraqi individual. All the lists presented today come with official reports and I have not ‘produced’ them myself,” Al Jabouri said.
Baghdad TV reported a number of Iraqi MPs expressed their disappointment on the continuous violations taking place against female prisoners in Iraq.