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US report on human rights in Iraq ‘inaccurate’, Baghdad says

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Iraqi authorities on Sunday dismissed the latest US State Department report on the state of human rights in the country as “inaccurate”. “The report lacked in accuracy and was partly based on reports from previous years,” said Ahmed Al-Sahhaf, the spokesperson of the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The US State Department issued on Wednesday its yearly report on the state of human rights practices across the world. In Iraq, the US agency documented serious human rights abuses committed by a wide range of political factions and by terrorist groups like the Islamic State. The findings contain…

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