The Greek government Wednesday condemned reported serious human rights violations in Iraq.

Greece shares the abhorrence of the international public opinion over the photographs brought to light of the torture of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers, government spokesman Theodoros Roussopoulos told reporters.

"The Greek government condemns violence from wherever it originates," he stressed, adding that "violence only breeds violence."

Seventy MPs of the main opposition PASOK party and an MP of theCoalition of the Radical Left (SYN) issued a statement Wednesday, denouncing the "unprecedented violation of human rights in Iraq."

The MPs called on the US government to take measures proving that it actively condemns the torture and humiliation of Iraqi citizens.

They further called for an emergent discussion of the human rights violations in Iraq at the upcoming session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Source: Xinhua