Abu Ghraib News

Military police commander Lt. Col. Bradley Graul said that the creation of the Tactical Operations Center at Camp Cropper "will not only enhance the continued care and custody of detainees, but it will begin the transition of United States transfer [ sic ] to the [Government of Iraq] while increasing their detention capabilities." More than 11,000 ...

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A former inmate of the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay , who was released to Britain this year, has asked a federal court in Washington to preserve "photographic evidence" that he says shows him being "savagely beaten" while a detainee.

US combat troops may have left Iraq's towns and cities but the yellow jumpsuit-clad inmates currently behind bars will remain in American-run prisons for months to come.

The subject of whether or when enhanced interrogation of enemy combatants held prisoner by U. S. Forces is torture or crosses the line as torture is one I have avoided.

Haider Sabbar Abed points at the picture showing a naked prisoner, posed for the camera with his head hooded, his hands behind his head.

Iraq's oldest human rights group and the international Red Cross said today that they complained repeatedly last year about maltreatment of Iraqi prisoners, long before the U.S. Army began investigating abuse allegations.

The Central Intelligence Agency crucified a prisoner in Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, according to a report published in The New Yorker magazine.

Back on May 9 , I wrote about the part of the torture debate that has been lost in the politics of Cheney and his effectiveness campaign, and the narrowing of the debate to waterboarding and whether it's really torture: approximately 100 detainnes have died during U.S. interrogations.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, Obama quietly released a statement on Friday in which he said, "My administration is committed to taking concrete actions against torture and to address the needs of its victims." Obama's statement left out his decision to ...

On April 19, 1775, a call went out to militiamen all across Massachusetts to rally in Lexington to halt British soldiers headed to confiscate Patriot weapons stores in Concord.

Lynndie England, best remembered as the woman in those infamous Abu Ghraib prison photos holding a tie around a prisoner's neck, is out with a book ex ...

That Israeli border police abuse Palestinians is bad enough, but to post videos of these crimes on YouTube is extraordinary That the Israeli border police has its fair share of racist thugs in its ranks is no surprise.

Image accomplished. The mission may be awaiting final resolution, but the Iraq War has now delivered what could become its signature image, a Kodak Moment of creepiness that shows a hooded Iraqi seemingly wired for electro-torture by American military guards at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad.

Six Army reservists shown in graphic photos mistreating and humiliating Iraqi prisoners at a sprawling prison west of Baghdad are assigned to the 372nd Military Police Company based in Cumberland, family members and officials said last night.

Pentagon denies claims of former inmates in Afghanistan detention centre of sleep deprivation and death threats More than 20 former prisoners at a US detention centre in Afghanistan have alleged they were beaten, deprived of sleep and threatened with dogs, according to a BBC report .

When people talk to me about anything cinematic, "depressing" has to be the most fear-filled adjective I hear.

ONE of the most disappointing aspects of the early months of the Obama administration has been its unwillingness to end many of the mind-numbing abuses linked to the so-called war on terror and to establish a legal and moral framework designed to prevent those abuses from ever occurring again.

A spate of deadly attacks killed more than 25 people in Iraq today and left more than 60 wounded, in a worrying escalation of violence as the exit of American troops from the country's cities draws nearer.

AFP, Baghdad Thirty-one people were killed on Monday as a spate of attacks hit Iraq just days before US troops are due to pull out of Iraq's cities, security officials said.