A/HRC/19/58 Baghdad’s Airport, Iraq. In accordance with the Working Group’s usual practice, the Governments of Iran and United States received a copy of the case. 316. The second case concerned Mr. Hassan Al Ani, who was allegedly abducted at his neighbour’s house in Baghdad by agents of the Ministry of the Interior, on 6 September 2005. Urgent Appeals 317. The Working Group sent two communications under its urgent appeals procedure to the Government. 318. The first one was transmitted on 27 April 2011, jointly with four other special procedures mechanisms, and concerned the alleged excessive use of force against peaceful protesters by Iraqi security forces during the peaceful demonstrations, which have been taking place in Baghdad since early February 2011. More specifically, it was reported that Mr. Haidar Shihab Ahmad Abdel Latif had been detained by Iraqi security forces during a demonstration in Tahrir Square, Baghdad, on 1 April 2011. 319. The second one was transmitted on 10 October 2011, jointly with another special procedures mechanism, and concerned Mr. Qussai Abdelraouf Nasser, who was allegedly abducted by three armed men wearing the black uniforms of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior forces on the edge of Al Baladyat, on 21 September 2011. The Working Group later transmitted the allegations concerning Mr. Qussai Abdelraouf Nasser as an urgent action. General Allegations Summary of the general allegation 320. Information was submitted by sources concerning obstacles encountered in the implementation of the Declaration on the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearance in Iraq. This information was transmitted to the Government on 4 May 2011, after the Working Group’s ninety-third session. 321. It was reported that Iraqi security forces have been operating secret detention facilities in Baghdad. It was further alleged that one secret detention site was located in a Justice Ministry detention facility at Camp Justice, known as Justice 2 (Sijn al-Adaleh 2). 322. It was reported that in November 2010, Iraqi authorities transferred more than 280 detainees to a secret site within Camp Justice, a military base in northwest Baghdad just before an international inspection team was to examine conditions at the detainees' previous location at Camp Honor in the Green Zone. 323. It was alleged that about 80 of the 280 detainees were being held by the 56th Brigade at the secret site and have had no access to lawyers or family members. It is also reported that prison inspectors were not permitted to conduct visits to the section of the facility. It is also alleged that the Counter-Terrorism Service was holding the rest of these detainees. 324. It was alleged that detainees are held incommunicado and in inhumane conditions, often for months at a time. It is alleged that interrogators beat the detainees, hung them upside down for hours at a time, administered electric shocks to various body parts, including the genitals, and asphyxiated them repeatedly with plastic bags put over their heads until they passed out. 325. It has also been reported that another secret prison was being run by the 54th Brigade, with the assistance of the 56th Brigade, in the old Muthanna airport in Western Baghdad. It is alleged that this secret prison held about 430 detainees who were denied access to their families or lawyers and were tortured. 72

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