Prisoner Abuse Photos from Iraq the Media Refuse to Show

Rusty Shackleford posts a large number of photos of prisoners being abused and even murdered in Iraq that, unlike the Abu Ghraib photos, have not seen the light of day in the mainstream press.

U.N. Calls for End to Guantánamo Detentions

The United Nations has issued a call for the United States to either try or release the prisoners at Guantánamo. A United Nations report today called on the United States to immediately close the detention center for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and to either release its inmates or bring them to trial. The report, by a ...

Yet More Abu Ghraib photos

Salon has published a new gallery of photos of prisoners being abused at Abu Ghraib. These go along with the batch published by the British and Australian media yesterday. The AP offers this description: New images of naked prisoners, some bloodied and lying on the floor, threatened to revive public anger over abuse by U.S. guards at Abu Ghraib prison at ...

Senate Compromise on Detainee Rights, Torture

Senators Lindsey Graham and Carl Leven have reached across the aisle to forge a compromise bill that would give limited judicial rights to those accused of terrorism, including a reiteration of existing policy against torture. Senators Agree on Detainee Rights (WaPo, A1) A bipartisan group of senators reached a compromise yesterday that would dramatically alter U.S. policy for treating captured terrorist suspects ...

Return of Secret Police in Iraq?

A raid last night on a Shiite militia-run detention center highlights what appears to be a major problem in Iraq: abusive practices by local warlords acting with quasi-governmental sanction. U.S.-Iraq Troops Raid Government Jail Where Abuses Are Alleged (LAT) About 100 U.S. and Iraqi troops raided an Interior Ministry administrative and detention facility Sunday night, at least in part to check on ...

Lynndie England Convicted Again

Lynndie England has been found guilty a second time by a military court, after her guilty plea in the initial trial was thrown out. England convicted on six of seven counts (AP) Army Pfc. Lynndie England, whose smiling poses in photos of detainee abuse at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison made her the face of the scandal, was convicted Monday by a ...

Another Prison Torture Scandal

Inmates Complain After 5 Turkey Dinners (AP) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Five straight turkey dinners prompted El Paso County jail inmates to go on a brief hunger strike. The inmates refused to eat Saturday, arguing that meals such as turkey chili mac, turkey a la king, turkey stew and turkey sausage were unnecessarily cruel. Dick Durbin is believed to be preparing a ...

American Journalist Steven Vincent Murdered in Iraq

Steven Vincent, a freelance journalist who had been critical of the Shiite clerics in Iraq, was kidnapped and shot dead near Basra. American journalist found shot dead in Basra (Reuters) An American journalist and author has been found shot dead in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, a Western diplomat said on Wednesday. The diplomat told Reuters the next of ...

Military JAGs Opposed Harsh Interrogation Techniques

Many senior JAG officers documented their oppositin to harsh interrogation techniques at Guantánamo Bay, according to the findings of a task force led by Senator Lindsey Graham. Military's Opposition to Harsh Interrogation Is Outlined (NYT) Senior military lawyers lodged vigorous and detailed dissents in early 2003 as an administration legal task force concluded that President Bush had authority as commander in chief ...

Guantanamo: Torture or No Torture?

The Washington Post's Josh White and Neil Lewis of the New York Times covered yesterday's hearings before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the prison abuse scandals at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib. They had rather different takes on what transpired--although not as different as their headline writers. Abu Ghraib Tactics Were First Used at Guantanamo (WaPo, A1) Interrogators at the U.S. ...