NEW ABU GHRAIB PHOTOS REVEALED

NEW ABU GHRAIB PHOTOS REVEALED
16.2.2006. 11:36:03



Graphic new photographs have emerged of prisoners being abused by US soldiers inside Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, which apparently reveal a greater extent of mistreatment in the 2003 prisoner abuse scandal.

The images, which have been shown on SBS’s Dateline program Wednesday, were taken at the same time as the infamous photographs of US soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners inside Abu Ghraib, which sparked international outrage after they were leaked in 2004.

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While some of the photographs are similar to the images made public two years ago, the latest photographs reveal further abuse including new incidents of killing, torture and sexual humiliation, the program’s producers said.

Dateline said the photos are the subject of a legal battle in the United States.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has been granted access to the photographs under Freedom of Information provisions, but the US government is currently appealing the decision.

Executive producer Mike Carey said Dateline obtained a file of hundreds of pictures, some that have been seen before and others that show new abuses.

Some photos feature prisoners in sexually humiliating acts that are deemed too graphic to be shown on the program, he said.

Video footage apparently shows one prisoner abusing himself by bashing his own head against a wall, while other photographs appear to show corpses.

Mr Carey says he assumes other journalists might also have seen the photographs but does not know why they had not been released until now.


SOURCE: Dateline


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