ISIS suspects face 'outsourced' justice in Iraq as HRW warns of 'collective global detention crisis'

Erin Ogunkeye is pleased to welcome Letta Tayler, Senior Counterterrorism Advisor at Human Rights Watch. She warns of the detention of suspected Islamic State members transferred from northeast Syria to Iraq as part of a much wider global detention crisis, one in which security concerns have repeatedly taken precedence over fundamental human rights. The men and boys now held in Iraq are living in 'dire' and overcrowded conditions, with deaths from illness, allegations of torture, and serious questions surrounding access to effective legal representation, let alone fair trials. The central issue here is not whether people accused of terrorism should be held accountable, explains Tayler. It is whether accountability can be achieved through legal proceedings that respect the rule of law and provide genuine justice to both detainees and victims. She is particularly concerned that many of these detainees were transferred to Iraq without being informed of where they were going or given a meaningful opportunity to challenge their transfer, despite Iraq's documented history of torture. Their subsequent prosecution raises further questions about jurisdiction, evidence, legal representation, and the use of Iraq's counterterrorism law, which can carry the death penalty. At the same time, countries such as France have largely chosen to outsource responsibility for their nationals rather than repatriate them, rehabilitate them where appropriate, and prosecute them through their own judicial systems.
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