"Our husbands were accused ... and we were arrested."

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/22/eveningnews/main3642350.shtml

BAGHDAD, Dec. 22, 2007

(CBS) Imagine women in prison because their husbands are accused of terrorism. Now imagine their infants and children in prison with them. Worst of all, it seems they have no way out.

CBS News Correspondent Elizabeth Palmer visited such a place with Iraqi Vice President Tareq al Hashemi, who had come to inspect Iraq's only women's jail.

The women prisoners of Khadimiya jail had been waiting a long time for the chance to be heard, some shouting from behind bars:

"Our husbands were accused ... and we were arrested."

"Many of us have been raped."

"We were pregnant and lost our babies."

Almost 200 inmates live in the prison, many with their children. Some of the babies were born behind bars.

Most of the women are being held on vague terrorism charges, with little or no evidence and no hope of legal advice -- or even a court date.

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. Thank goodness this is the Americans and not Saddam Hussein

That makes all the difference, I guess. :eyes:

[seabeyond]

2. "Many of us have been raped." ... just war... from what i am hearing from some on this board

suck it up and deal with it. our men raping is part of the package deal for them.

[StrictlyRockers]

3. Obscene. That this is being done by my country and my countrymen...

utterly obscene.