Iraq: secret executions still carried out

October 7, 2008: the Independent learned that secret executions are being carried out in Iraq in the prisons run by Nouri al-Maliki's government.The hangings are carried out regularly, from a wooden gallows in a small, cramped cell, in Saddam Hussein's old intelligence headquarters at Kazimiyah.There is no public record of these killings in what is now called Baghdad's "high-security detention