Report from ' Workers Unity' weekly newspaper of the Iraqi Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU)

IFTU condemns human rights violation against detainees in Abu Ghraib prison

In a statement published in 'Workers Unity', the newspaper of the IFTU, on May 11 2004, the IFTU executive committee condemned human right abuses against Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison.

The IFTU staement denounced these atrocities and called upon international human rights agencies, and in particular Amnesty International and the Red Crescent to investigate these violation of human rights and to bring to justice the perpetrators of these crimes whether they are carried by troops or private contractors.

The IFTU re-iterates its position of demanding an end to the occupation of Iraq and for the United Nations to act to assist the Iraqi people to build a democratic Iraq and rebuild the shattered country.