Bush administration challenged on detention abuses
Tuesday, October 19, 2004 at 05:50AM
TheSpook
Despite recent revelations about the torture and abuse of prisoners at
Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, lawyers representing detainees, both in Iraq
and Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, have obtained disturbing new first-hand
accounts that human rights abuses haven't ended. Detainees says they
have been kicked, beaten, intimidated with dogs, urinated on, insulted
about their religious practices, and denied medical treatment for their
injuries. Lawyers with the New York City-based Center for
Constitutional Rights (CCR) have also collected accounts that Americans
in Iraq engaged in looting money, jewellery and other valuables from
people's houses during night time raids. The accusations have led to a
federal class action suit on behalf of the Iraqi detainees against the
CACI and Titan corporations, two private contractors operating in Iraq.
"We filed the suit because it doesn't look like Congress is going to do
anything," says Jeffrey Fogel, legal director for CCR, one of several
firms representing the plaintiffs. "We want to use the lawsuit to find
out what's really going on at the US detention centres." [more ]
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