Torture

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Torture at Abu Ghraib And Guantánamo Bay Abu
Ghraib in Iraq and Guantánamo Bay in Cuba are US
Armed Forces controlled prisons where men, women
and children taken prisoner during the invasions
and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq are
detained.
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Secretary of DefenseDonald Rumsfeldvisited Abu
Ghraib Prison

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Techniques approved by Secretary of Defense
Rumsfeld

• Removal of clothing
• (forced nakedness)

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Taguba Report of Torture at Abu Ghraib

• Videotaping and photographing naked male and
  female detainees

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Taguba Report of Torture at Abu Ghraib

• Forcibly arranging detainees in various sexually
  explicit positions for photographing

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Techniques approved by Secretary of Defense
Rumsfeld

• The use of dogs to fear up
• and induce stress

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The International Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC) reported

• Handcuffing for extended periods with tightened
  flexi-cuffs causing wounds and lesions

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Taguba Report of Torture at Abu Ghraib

• Forcing naked male detainees to wear womens
  underwear

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Techniques approved by Secretary of Defense
Rumsfeld

• Use of stress,
• intimidation,
• threats

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Taguba Report of Torture at Abu Ghraib

• Punching,
• slapping
• and kicking detainees

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Taguba Report of Torture at Abu Ghraib

• Allowing a military police guard to stitch the
  wound of a detainee who was injured after being
  slammed against the wall in his cell

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Manadel al-Jamadi died at Abu Ghraib four hours
after capture on 4 November 2003 from injuries
caused by beating and torture. His US
interrogators bound his wrists behind his back
and hung him by the wrists from a barred window
until he died.
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Taguba Report of Torture at Abu Ghraib

• Arranging naked male detainees in a pile and then
  jumping on them

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The International Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC) reported

• Ill-treatment of detainees was not the exception
  but a practice tolerated by Coalition forces

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The International Committee of the Red Cross
(ICRC) reported

• Horrific treatment of detainees in prison
  facilities that caused physical and psychological
  injury and even death

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Taguba Report of Torture at Abu Ghraib

• Positioning a naked detainee on a MRE Box, with a
  sandbag on his head, and attaching wires to his
  fingers, toes and penis to simulate electrical
  torture

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• Still Detained in US Armed Forces Prisons
• 550 people are still detained in Guantánamo Bay,
  some of whom have been imprisoned since Jan 2002.
• 250 to 300 of the Guantánamo Bay detainees may be
  moved to prisons in Egypt, Saudi Arabia or
  elsewhere.
• 10,500 people are detained in US Armed Forces
  prisons in Iraq (approximately).
• 5,000 to 10,000 people are believed to be
  detained in US Armed Forces prisons in other
  places, including Afghanistan and Diego Garcia.
• 3 April 2005