Vigilantes target Iraq porn surfers

This post is from Al-Jazeera directly:

Spending most of his free time alone, he turned to browsing the internet and soon began surfing online pornography. But that is a decision he now bitterly regrets.

Late in May, Abdel-Qahar was kidnapped after leaving an internet cafe. He was blindfolded and taken to a house he believes to be on the outskirts of the capital.

"Someone was sitting near me at the internet cafe and probably was an extremist spy. He saw when I was watching some erotic movies and when I left the place I was immediately taken in a car with three men," the 23-year-old engineering student said.

He recalled that he was beaten with an iron bar and belt and forced to drink chicken blood and his own urine.

"They told me to take off all my clothes and handcuffed me. They started to beat me and use cigarettes to burn my legs.

"I was desperate and was shouting asking why they were doing that with me and after three hours of continuous torture they told me that it was because I was watching non-Muslim sites on the internet," he said.