'Human rights group Amnesty International is accusing the Iraqi government of operating secret prisons in which detainees are "systematically tortured" to extract confessions that are used to convict them.
In a report issued Tuesday, the London-based group says the Iraqi ministries of interior and defense operate detention facilities - some secret - in which the alleged abuses have occurred. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has denied that his government runs secret prisons.'
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This will always happen in a legal system where people can be convicted on the basis of a confession, without good supporting evidence.
Perhaps it needs to be written into the constitution that nobody can be convicted by his own confession.
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