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AFP
BAGHDAD
AN Iraqi security agency has admitted holding hundreds of"terrorism"suspects for months, Human Rights Watch said on Sunday while calling on authorities to inform the families of those held.
The National Security Service acknowledged it was holding male prisoners at a facility in east Mosul, the Iraqi city from which the Islamic State group was ousted last year.
After previously denying the existence of any detention facilities, the NSS allowed HRW on July 4 to visit the centre where the group found clean but"extremely overcrowded"cells.
"Researchers were granted access to the facility, where officials said 427 prisoners were being held at the time,"HRW said in a press release.
Before visiting the facility HRW interviewed archaeologist Faisal Jeber, who said he was detained in early April and estimated at least 450 prisoners were being held, based on a daily head count.
While the 47-year-old was released within 48 hours, he"described horrendous conditions and said that detainees had no access to lawyers, family visits, or medical care".
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