there are some 50,000 detainees in Iraq, many of them untried and not accused of any crime. Iraqi authorities hold 24,000 detainees and the United States...
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Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse (redirect from Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal)
series of human rights violations and war crimes against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. These abuses included physical abuse, sexual humiliation...
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of prisoners or detainees by Iraqi security forces continued even after the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse incident came to light in 2004. In one recorded case...
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Lawrence Wilkerson (category American people of the Iraq War)
look-alike detainees" and that the February 2002 White House memorandum regarding the "Humane Treatment of Taliban and al Qaeda Detainees" contained a...
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Abu Ghraib prison (category 1950s establishments in Iraq)
international attention in 2003 following the U.S. invasion of Iraq, when the torture and abuse of detainees committed by guards in part of the complex operated...
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Camp Cropper (category Torture in the Iraq War)
holding facility for security detainees operated by the United States Army near Baghdad International Airport in Iraq. The facility was initially operated...
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increase from 7,000 prisoners in 2004 to as many as 51,000 in 2007. Leading up to the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in 2011, detainees were gradually released or...
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casualties from the Iraq War (beginning with the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and the ensuing occupation and insurgency and civil war) have come in several forms...
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Ivan Frederick (category People convicted in the Abu Ghraib scandal)
psychological abuse on Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison, a notorious prison in Baghdad during the United States' occupation of Iraq. In May 2004, Frederick...
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initially 16 Iraqi detainees in Guantanamo. In 2005, nine Iraqi citizens were held in the United States's Guantanamo Bay detention camps, in Cuba. Eight...
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Camp Bucca (category Prisons in Iraq)
housed the tallest structure in Iraq, a 492-meter-high TV mast. After the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal, many detainees from Abu Ghraib were transferred...
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Charles Graner (category Photography in Iraq)
Military Justice on charges of conspiracy to maltreat detainees, failing to protect detainees from abuse, cruelty, and maltreatment, as well as charges...
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Reports of mock executions carried out by the US Marines on detainees in Iraq surfaced in December 2004, as the American Civil Liberties Union published...
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deaths of detainees in Iraq. Since 2010, he has been involved in the investigation and prosecution of alleged bribery, corruption, and fraud in the British...
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Extrajudicial prisoners of the United States (redirect from Detainees in CIA custody)
detainees outside Guantanamo Bay and the United States in order to avoid any review of their cases. These four men and other high-value CIA detainees...
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with the CIA in hiding dozens of ghost detainees from the Red Cross. Kern told the Committee there may have been as many as 100 ghost detainees. The practice...
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Sabrina Harman (category Women in the Iraq War)
convicted of maltreatment of detainees, conspiracy to maltreat detainees, and dereliction of duty. She was sentenced to six months in prison, forfeiture of all...
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Lynndie England (category Photography in Iraq)
mistreating detainees during the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse that occurred at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad during the Iraq War. She was...
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Linda Wenzel (category Prisoners and detainees of Iraq)
identified in Germany as Linda W., is a German-born Al-Khansaa Brigade member for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, who was captured by Iraqi troops...
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The 2003 invasion of Iraq was the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion (defined later by the UN as a war crime) began on 20 March 2003 and lasted...
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the invasion of Iraq, CITF deployed yet another element to Iraq, initially to prepare for the possible transfer of detainees in Iraq to Guantanamo. Later...
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hearing, was: Emerging as a leader, the detainee has been leading the detainees around him in prayer. The detainees listen to him speak and follow his actions...
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Ali Mahmud al-Shaykh (category Prisoners and detainees of Iraq)
al-Shaykh Ali al-Hiazi al-Obeidi is an Iraqi politician, born on June 3, 1901, in Abu Ghraib. He entered politics in 1922, when he entered the elections...
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The Iraq War (Arabic: حرب العراق, romanized: ḥarb al-ʿirāq), also referred to as the Second Gulf War, was a prolonged conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003...
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place of Saddam Hussein in Operation Red Dawn. British troops have also on occasion been accused of abusing Iraqi detainees. Such treatment violates...
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Abu Habib al-Libi (category Prisoners and detainees of Iraq)
State leader in both Iraq and Libya. He was born in Derna, Libya in 1975. After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, he traveled from Libya to Iraq via Syria to...
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Khairallah Talfah (category Prisoners and detainees of Iraq)
Khairallah Tolfah, or Khairallah Tilfah, was an Iraqi Ba'ath Party official, and the maternal uncle and father-in-law of Saddam Hussein. He was the father of...
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As of December 2023[update], 30 detainees remain at Guantanamo Bay. Enhanced interrogation techniques "The Guantánamo Docket". The New York Times. 11...
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Muntadhar al-Zaidi (redirect from Iraqi shoe-hurler)
Muntaẓar az-Zaydī; born 15 January 1979) is an Iraqi broadcast journalist who served as a correspondent for Iraqi-owned, Egyptian-based Al-Baghdadia TV. As...
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