New allegations of abuses at US prisons abroad. An upcoming expose in The New Yorker magazine says prisoners at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison were submerged in garbage cans filled with icy water and held naked under cold showers in near-freezing temperatures until going into shock. Sgt. Javal Davis told The New Yorker some prisoners were starved prior to being interrogated. Sgt. Davis also says he suspected prisoners were being cremated at the prison after witnessing an incinerator containing human bones. Another soldier, Sabrina Harman, said the US had imprisoned women and children at Abu Ghraib, including one child as young as ten years old. Harman gained notoriety for appearing in a photograph posing over the body of a prisoner she now says she believed was tortured to death.
Ex-Soldiers Reveal New Details of Abuses at Abu Ghraib
HeadlineMar 20, 2008