An Iraqi opposition group said that 15 political dissidents...

An Iraqi opposition group said that 15 political dissidents had been executed in a prison west of Baghdad.
The claim by the Center for Human Rights, which is linked to the Iraqi Communist Party, could not be independently confirmed. The Iraqi government does not comment on such allegations.
The center, citing unnamed sources inside Iraq, said that the executions took place in the Abu Ghraib prison, west of Baghdad, on July 21 and the bodies were buried at night in a mass grave at al-Karkh cemetery in Baghdad.
A statement faxed to The Associated Press in Cairo said the men had been executed for opposing President Saddam Hussein's regime. To date, the center reported 33 executions of political prisoners during July.
It said the executions are going on "while the hypocrite rulers claim ... they endeavor to protect the Iraqi people from the dangers of an American aggression and similar other allegations."
The Iraqi opposition group urged the international community to send human rights observers to Iraq along with weapons inspectors.
The center is based in the Kurdish autonomous zone of northern Iraq.