"The abuse including being slapped, strangled, handcuffed behind their backs with a pulley system and threatened with rape with iron bars was inflicted to make them confess to their presence in Iraq during their alleged time in ISIL, which would give the Iraqi justice system jurisdiction to try them for their alleged crimes, the lawyers said. The lawyers were quoted as saying the accused ISIL members assured us that they had not been in Iraq before their arrest in Syria and their transfer to Baghdad."
"The 13 men said they were arrested from 2017 to March 23, 2019, the day ISIL lost control of Baghouz, Syria, ending its final hold on territory. They said they were imprisoned in a jail in northeastern Syria under challenging conditions, in which four French inmates died due to illness and severe deficiencies, and they were interrogated on numerous occasions by the FBI, CIA and other agencies believed to represent France and the European Union."
A group of French nationals accused of being part of ISIL were transferred by the United States from Syria to prisons in Iraq. Allegations of torture and inhumane treatment include slapping, strangulation, being handcuffed behind the back with a pulley system, and threats of rape with iron bars intended to force confessions about presence in Iraq. Thirteen of the 47 accused were visited in Baghdad; arrests occurred between 2017 and March 23, 2019, after prior imprisonment in northeastern Syrian jails where four French inmates died from illness and severe deficiencies. Interrogations by the FBI, CIA and agencies believed to represent France and the European Union took place during detention. Transfers were conducted via US military flights amid a Syrian government advance.
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