BAGHDAD, May 20 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's special Iraq adviser and the Red Cross envoy in Baghdad Thursdya discussed the Iraqi prison situation.
The U.N.'s Lakhdar Brahimi discussed with International Committee of the Red Cross representative Pierre Grassmann due process rights, the whereabouts of the detainees and the conditions of their detention, a U.N. spokesman said.
Brahimi urged the ICRC to engage the new Iraqi caretaker government, due to take over sovereignty from the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority on June 30, to find solutions to all the outstanding problems regarding the detainees in Abu Ghraib and other prisons following reports of abuse and humiliation by U.S. and other coalition forces.
The U.N. envoy, who has been in Iraq for two weeks for talks with all sectors of society as part of his effort to set up an interim government, said he was concerned about the situation of the detainees and had raised these issues publicly, both in Baghdad and in his report to the U.N. Security Council last month.
