welcome back you're watching the weekly on r t international now human rights watch has released a damning report exposing torture and abuse of youngsters suspected of having links to islamic state in iraq the group says iraqi and kurdish authorities routinely force suspects some as young as fourteen to confess the report features a number of first hand accounts as well. what to me is shot i mean and they say you know. it is. i three. hundred. seventy. at the age of the. little at the border. hello mr odd job that i just started just out of but just. enough that i decided that a lot and leave. myself. out of our business africa. and there was still a better way than i had the power. of a better one. the report describes the kind of torture to which of the detainees are allegedly subjected to beatings with plastic pipes and electric cables as well as the use of electric shocks and stress positions are said to be among the methods employed by critics regional authorities. well according to human rights watch at the end of last year iraqi and kurdish authorities were holding some fifteen hund