Prisoners Brutalized In Baghdad Gulag Prison

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American Free Press

---Except for guards and prisoners, only the International Red Cross is allowed inside. They are forbidden to describe what they see.

But some of its staff have broken ranks—to tell Amnesty International (AI), the London-based human rights watchdog, of the shocking conditions the 3,000 Iraqi prisoners are held under.

None had been charged with any offense. They are listed as suspected “looters” and “rioters.” Or listed as “loyal to Saddam Hussein.”

Every day more prisoners are crowded into the broiling, dusty compound. Surrounded by 10-foot-high razor wire, they live in tents that are little protection against the blistering sun. They sleep 80 to a tent on wafer-thin mats.

Each prisoner has a long-handled shovel to dig his own latrine. Some are too old or weak to dig the ordered depth of three feet. Others find they have excavated pits already used.

The overpowering stench in this hellhole is suffocating. “Add to sleep deprivation and physical abuse you have highly degrading conditions which are tantamount to torture and gross abuse of human rights,” said Curt Goering, deputy director of AI.---

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