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Al-Sweady inquiry hears father’s allegations of torture by British troops

By Sharon Black

The first witness to give evidence alleges marks of torture on his son’s body, but the claims are dismissed by the inquiry QC The father of an Iraqi teenager who was allegedly murdered by British soldiers has described injuries on his son’s body as a bullet wound in the neck, a fractured right jaw, bruises to the chest, and marks around the neck “resembling a necklace”. Injuries to other Iraqis included “bodies distorted and mutiliated, eyes missing, tongues cut out, and noses cut off”, he told a public inquiry on Monday.

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Iraq torture claims ‘utterly groundless’, Al-Sweady inquiry hears

By Sharon Black

Allegations of unlawful killing and mistreatment of prisoners by British soldiers denied by officers and troops involved Allegations that British soldiers tortured and unlawfully killed Iraqi prisoners after a firefight in 2004 are “utterly groundless” and were exploited in support of a propaganda campaign against the occupation of the country, a public inquiry heard on Monday. The killing and mistreatment claims are denied by each of the officers and men involved in that engagement, and by those involved in the capture and interrogation of Iraqis in its aftermath, Neil Garnham QC, counsel for the troops, told the inquiry. “They are denied on the basis that they are wholly untrue,” he said