The Human Rights Group – Amnesty International – says, detainees in Iraqi prisons often go to for years of their trial and face widespread torture and abuse. In a report released today, Amnesty International accused Iraqi Security forces of systematically violating detainees rights. The report says, Iraqi authorities are holding some 30,000 people without trial and denying them access to lawyers, leaving them at risk of torture. Amnesty's rights expert on Iraq, Carsten Jurgensen, noted that around 10,000 detainees were at an increased risk of abuse after the US handed them over to Iraqi authorities. The report alleged that prisoners were beaten with electric cables and tortured with electric shocks and drills. Amnesty International's Director for West Asia and North Africa, Malcolm Smart said Iraq's security forces have been responsible for systematically violating detainees' rights and they have been permitted to do so with impunity. He said several detainees are known to have died in custody, apparently as a result of torture or other ill-treatment by Iraqi interrogators and prison guards, who regularly refuse to confirm their detention or whereabouts to relatives.