Iraq: Torture to Confession to Execution

Index Number: MDE 14/017/2007
Date Published: 1 November 2007
Categories: Iraq, Middle East And North Africa

Samar Sa'ad 'Abdullah was sentenced to death in August 2005. She insists she is innocent of the murder of her uncle, his wife and one of their children. She has blamed her fianc�, saying he killed her relatives in order to rob her uncle. Her fianc� was also accused of the murder but it is not known if the authorities have been able to arrest him. She says that she only confessed to the murders because she was tortured by the police.