And here is the actual dossier about Saddam's human rights violations, calling it that is the understatement of the century.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/02/uk_human_rights_dossier_on_iraq/pdf/iraq_human_rights.pdf
excerpts:
Prisoners are beaten twice a day and the women
regularly raped by their guards. They receive no
medical treatment, but some prisoners have
survived up to a year in the “Mahjar”.
“At first they put me in a compressed room less than one metre high and with the same width.
The prisoners here are kept in rows
of rectangular steel boxes, as found in mortuaries,
until they either confess to their crimes or die.
There are around 100-150 boxes which are
opened for half an hour a day to allow the
prisoners some light and air. The prisoners
receive only liquids.
In sector four (of the prison) they have ten rooms, all painted pitch black. Once there, you could
see nothing and would not know whether it was night or day. For there were no lights in those
rooms. You could hear nothing. The rooms were infested with large numbers of lice and rats.
I spent about eight months in those rooms
50-60 metal boxes the size of old tea chests in
which detainees are locked under the same
conditions as the “Sijn Al-Tarbut”. Each box has
a tap for water and a floor made of mesh to allow
the detainees to defecate.
In early 1998, the Iraqi regime obstructed a UN
weapons inspection team which was trying to
investigate claims that Iraq had conducted
biological weapons experiments on prisoners
during the mid-1990s.
Sounds like Cuba.