10 October 2006
Azad Muhammad Hussein
Torture
The body of Azad Muhammad Hussein was identified in the Baghdad morgue on 10 October, a week after he had been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen.
The Journalistic Freedoms Observatory, an Iraqi press freedom organization, said the body of the reporter for the Iraqi Islamic Party-owned Radio Dar Al-Salam, showed evident signs of torture. The journalist was kidnapped from al-Shaab neighborhood in northern Baghdad on October 3. It was not immediately clear how or when Hussein’s body arrived at the morgue.
