PARIS (Reuters) - A French man sentenced to death in Iraq this week on charges of joining Islamic State told the court he had been forced to confess, campaign group Human Rights Watch said on Friday.
A second French defendant told the judge he had been tortured in custody, and had his trial postponed for medical checks, the rights watchdog added.
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