The former Iraqi human rights minister is accusing the head of the US occupation Paul Bremer of ignoring his warnings last November that Iraqi prisoners were being abused in US-run jails including Abu Gharib. Abdel Basset Turki, who recently resigned his post in protest of the US actions in Fallujah, said “In November I talked to Mr Bremer about human rights violations in general and in jails in particular. He listened but there was no answer. At the first meeting, I asked to be allowed to visit the security prisoners, but I failed. I told him the news. He didn’t take care about the information I gave him.” The former minister’s charges came as criticism of the US intensifies over the prison abuse scandal. On Monday the top U.S. commander in Iraq issued administrative rebukes to six commissioned and noncommissioned officers. But none of the officers are facing criminal charges. One unnamed U.S. officer in Baghdad said QUOTE “The officers at Abu Ghraib aren’t facing criminal charges. They did not know or participate in any crimes. Their responsibility is to set the standards in the organization. They should have known, but they did not.”