According to accounts by alleged victims published in the latest edition of Vanity Fair magazine, Sexual and physical abuse of Iraqi prisoners continued at least three months after the Abu Ghraib scandal was revealed. Vanity Fair writer Donovan Webster, in a report on 60 hours of interviews he conducted with 10 former detainees including a 15-year-old boy, quoted several accounts of mistreatment that included Iraqi prisoners being sexually assaulted by American soldiers or being hooded, beaten, subjected to electric shock and kept in cages or crates. One man said he was hung naked from handcuffs in a frigid room while soldiers threw buckets of ice water on him. Webster added that several of the people he interviewed said their mistreatment took place in July; three months after the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal broke in late April.

The article published on Tuesday said the former detainees interviewed by Webster are suing two American companies that provided translators and interrogators to forces in Iraq and that their firsthand accounts comprise “hundreds, if not thousands, of separate Geneva Convention violations.” The Pentagon denied the allegations.