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Report: U.S. Treated Elderly Woman Like a Donkey

HeadlineMay 06, 2004

And the British human rights envoy to Iraq has said she found evidence to confirm reports that the US detained an elderly Iraqi woman last year and treated her like an animal. The envoy told the BBC the woman, who was in her 70s, was held for about six weeks without charge. During that time she was insulted and told she was a donkey. A harness was put on her, and an American rode on her back.”

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