Saturday, November 6, 2010

Iraqi prisoners were abused at 'UK's Abu Ghraib', court hears

Detainees were starved, deprived of sleep and threatened with execution at JFIT facilities near Basra, high court told

Ian Cobain
The Guardian, Saturday 6 November 2010






"Evidence of the alleged systematic and brutal mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at a secret British military interrogation centre that is being described as "the UK's Abu Ghraib" emerged yesterday during high court proceedings brought by more than 200 former inmates.

The court was told there was evidence that detainees were starved, deprived of sleep, subjected to sensory deprivation and threatened with execution at the shadowy facilities near Basra operated by the Joint Forces Interrogation Team, or JFIT....."

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