Baghdad The High Commission for Human Rights called on the legislative and executive authorities to approve the anti-torture law.

In a statement on the occasion of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture and Other Inhuman and Degrading Treatment, the Commission renewed its call on the competent state institutions to take all procedural and legislative measures that ensure work within the International Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment, and to limit these practices, which are rejected by all, which gives immunity to investigators by using illegal methods to extract confessions, whatever the circumstances, in accordance with what is stated in international laws and binding treaties and the optional protocol attached to them.

The Commission called on the legislative and executive authorities to approve the anti-torture law, and to take into account the need to harmonize national legislation with international conventions and instruments, as well as to work with law enforcement agencies to improve the humanitarian reality of prisons, detention centers and work to combat cases of impunity for perpetrators of crimes, and to defend victims of torture.

Source: National Iraqi News Agency