Report: Iraq torture
chamber found
Wednesday, April 2, 2003 Posted: 8:10 PM EST (0110 GMT)
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He said he was told that an interrogator
would use the tires to stand on, while water was poured into the room and
the prisoner electrocuted.
Other rooms had hooks hanging from the ceiling, while another 1.2 meter by 2.4 meter (4 foot by 8 foot) cell was equipped with just a pillow and mattress. The reporter said he interviewed one man, who did not want to be identified, who said prisoners were blindfolded, tied up, hung on the hooks and then beaten. The man also said a citizen who committed a crime could avoid being tortured by putting up cash -- about $1,600 for stealing, and almost twice that for murder, according to the BBC reporter. |