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WASHINGTON, March 8 — Iraqi police units, often infiltrated and even dominated by members of sectarian militias, continue to be linked to arbitrary arrests and to the torture, rapes and sometimes deaths of detainees, the State Department reported today.
"The vast majority of human rights abuses reportedly carried out by government agents were attributed to the police," the department said.
The report, issued as part of the department's yearly global rights review, named North Korea, Burma, Iran, Zimbabwe, China and Cuba as being among the worst violators of human rights.
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