A report from the British Foreign Office claimed that...

A report from the British Foreign Office claimed that the Iraqi government was systematically violating the human rights of its citizens. It claimed that more than 50 mental patients were executed in place of prisoners who had bribed their way out of the death sentence. Thirty prostitutes were beheaded in a "clean-up" in October and their severed heads were left on the doorsteps of their homes, according to the report. It added that execution or torture orders were signed by members of President Saddam's family, including his sons and half-brothers, or by one of his closest advisers.