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Two children among abused prisoners 12--year-old Iraqi girl 8-year-old Iraqi boy,brought into the prison and tortured |
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by Janet Witherspoon
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08 May 2004
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A British television station reported today that a young Iraqi girl held at Abu Ghraib prison was stripped naked and beaten while her brother heard her scream from another cell.
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The ITV News report quoted Suhaib al-Baz, 24, a cameraman for the Arab satellite TV network Al-Jazeera, as saying he saw the abuse while he was being held at the prison.
Earlier, al-Baz had told reporters he had been stripped, beaten, spat upon and deprived of sleep during his 74-day stint in US Army custody.
Soldiers took "torture shots" with their personal cameras, he said. In one case, al-Baz said he saw a soldier's computer screen emblazoned with a backdrop picture of a hooded, handcuffed prisoner being attacked by a dog.
ITV News quoted al-Baz as saying he saw a 12--year-old Iraqi girl brought into the prison.
Late at night, he said, she was brought in front of his and other prison cells, naked and screaming. Her brother, held in an upper cell, heard her scream and call out for his help, said al-Baz.
Another time, al-Baz said, he saw a 8-year-old Iraqi boy, who was ill, being forced to hold two heavy cans of water and run up and down a corridor. If the boy stopped, he was beaten with a stick by an American soldier, ITV quoted al-Baz as saying.
"He collapsed from exhaustion, so they stripped him and poured cold water over him," al-Baz said.
A naked, hooded man was brought into the area and placed face-to-face with the boy. When the man's hood was removed, the boy was shocked to see his father and collapsed, al-Baz said.
The American soldiers "then forced his father to wear a bra and a pair of knickers" and laughed, al-Baz said.
ITV said al-Baz had been arrested by US forces in Tikrit, Iraq, in early November while covering clashes between insurgents.
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