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hertz -> UK makes late entry to 'Torturing Iraqi Prisoners League' leaderboard... (11/6/2010 5:06:44 AM)
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Read it here
It's all a bit embarrassing, to be honest. We thought the US had it all sewn up with their excellent 'Abu Ghraib' and 'Guantanamo' power-plays, but turns out that we in the UK know a thing or two about prisoner abuse as well...
Never, ever, believe that Britain is a spent force. We can do torture just as well as the US, and, it has to be said, when it comes to the 'Covering it up and hiding it' league, we are number one.
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Evidence of the alleged systematic and brutal mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at a secret British military interrogation centre that is being described as "the UK's Abu Ghraib" emerged yesterday during high court proceedings brought by more than 200 former inmates.
The court was told there was evidence that detainees were starved, deprived of sleep, subjected to sensory deprivation and threatened with execution at the shadowy facilities near Basra operated by the Joint Forces Interrogation Team, or JFIT.It also received allegations that JFIT's prisoners were beaten, forced to kneel in stressful positions for up to 30 hours at a time, and that some were subjected to electric shocks. Some of the prisoners say that they were subject to sexual humiliation by women soldiers, while others allege that they were held for days in cells as small as one metre square.
Michael Fordham QC, for the former inmates, said the question needed to be asked: "Is this Britain's Abu Ghraib?"http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/nov/06/iraq-prisoner-abuse-court
The only question remaining is this: Did Bliar know? Someone needs to be jailed for this. Preferably in the same place these poor fuckers were held.
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