Iraq's lethal confession culture

by Amnesty International

More than 110,000 dead, thousands detained, torture, executions, coerced confessions, corruption and unfair trials.
10 years since the US led invasion and Iraq remains enmeshed in a cycle of human rights abuses. The new Iraq has become one of the world's leading executioners with 129 prisoners hanged in 2012 and hundreds more languishing on death row.