Iraq calls on US to hand over Iraqi detainees

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BAGHDAD - Iraq’s human rights minister called on US-led forces on Thursday to hand over all Iraqi inmates at US-run prisons to the Iraqi government, following more footage of prisoners being abused.

“We are very worried about the Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib. The multinational forces and the British forces should hand them over to the (Iraqi) government,” Zuhair al-Chalabi told Reuters.

“This is a very dangerous issue that the Iraqi government should review,” he said. “The Iraqi government should move immediately to have the prisons and the prisoners delivered to the ministry of justice.”

In an interview, Chalabi condemned the previously unpublished images as “major human rights violations” and compared them to abuses committed under dictatorships. The footage was broadcast on Wednesday by an Australian television station.

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