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Abu Ghraib Inmates Testify to Abuse and Torture

In Their Own Words: Iraqis Describe Their Ordeal

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Abu Ghraib Inmates Testify to Abuse and Torture

Abu Ghraib inmates were frequently stripped naked, cuffed in groups of two or three, doused in cold water and beaten while cuffed.

U.S. Army / Criminal Investigation Command (CID)

Sexual Brutalization
Testimony of Asad Hamza Hanfosh, Detainee # 15252

On the date of November 5, 2003, when the US forces transferred to Isolation, when they took me out of the car, an American soldier hit me with his hand on my face. And then they stripped me naked and they took me under the water and then he made me crawl the hallway until I was bleeding from my chest to my knees and my hands. And after that he put me back into the cell and an hour later he took me out from the cell the second time to the shower room under cold water and them he made me get up on a box, naked, and he hit me on my manhood. I don’t know with what, then I fell down on the ground. He made me crawl on the ground. And then he tied my hands in my cell naked until morning time until Joyner showed up and released my hands and took me back to my room and gave me my clothes back. About two days later my interrogation came up, when it was done a white soldier wearing glasses picked me from the room I was in. He grabbed my head and hit it against the wall and then tied my hand to the bed until noon the next day and then two days later the same soldier and he took all my clothes and my mattress and he didn’t give me anything so I can sleep on except my jump suit for 3 days. Then Joyner came and gave me a blanket and my clothes a second time.

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