Ministry knew of Iraqi torture

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Danish officials began reacting in 2003 to increasing reports of torture in Iraqi prisons and coalition prison camps, but despite the many warnings, Denmark continued to hand Iraqi prisoners over to the prisons and camps, according to memoranda that Politiken has studied.

“It shows that all the system’s red lights were on. And instead of doing something about it, the government was compliant and didn’t act. A scandal,” says former Foreign Minister and current Social Liberal Defence Policy Spokesman Niels Helveg Petersen.

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