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Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p From late 2003 to early 2004, during the Iraq War, military police personnel of the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agencycommittedhuman rights violations against prisoners held in the Abu Ghraib prison. They physically and sexually abused, tortured, raped, sodomized, and killedprisoners.What became known as "the Abu Ghraib Scandal" came to public attention in the summer of 2003 beginning with reports from Amnesty International (AI) of human rights abuses by the U.S. and its coalition allies at detention centers and prisons throughout Iraq. Reports of brutal treatment began to emerge from what had been Saddam Hussein's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, recently "liberated" by the U.S.. In a news release dated 20 June 2003, Dr Abdel Salam Sidahmed, Deputy Director of Amnesty International's Middle East Program reported on an uprising by the prisoners against the conditions of their detention at the now American-run Abu Ghraib: "The notorious Abu Ghraib Prison, centre of torture and mass executions under Saddam Hussein, is yet again a prison cut off from the outside world. On 13 June there was a protest in this prison against indefinite detention without trial. Troops from the occupying powers killed one person and woundedseven.". A little over a month later, on July 23, Amnesty International again issued a press release condemning widespread human rights abuses by U.S. and coalition forces: "Former detainees told Amnesty International that people detained by Coalition Forces were held in tents in the extreme heat and were not provided with sufficient drinking water or adequate washing facilities. They were forced to use open trenches for toilets and were not given a change of clothes - even after two months’ detention. [...] Amnesty International has received reports of torture or ill-treatment by Coalition Forces. Reported methods include prolonged sleep deprivation, prolonged restraint in painful positions—sometimes combined with exposure to loud music, prolonged hooding and exposure to bright lights." The stories of widespread abuse and torture of Iraqi civilians at the hands of coalition troops emerged throughout the summer and fall of 2003, with US Government spokesmen and the President himself ignoring the emerging narrative of widespread human rights abuses taking place in prisons and detention centers run by the U.S. military throughout Iraq. On 14 August 2003, speaking at a U.S. military installation at Miramar, Calif., U.S. President George W. Bush declared: "We met the major combat objectives in Operation Iraqi Freedom by removing a regime that persecuted Iraqis, and supported terrorists, and was armed to threaten the peace of the world. All the world is now seeing just how badly the Iraqi people suffered under this brutal dictator. The Iraqi people, themselves, are seeing a new day thanks to the brave men and women who came to liberate them [...] Thanks to our military, Iraqi citizens do not have to fear a secret police, arbitrary arrests, or loved ones lost forever [...] [t]hanks to our military, the torture chambers of a dictator are closed." Speaking to the 85th American Legion Convention in St. Louis, Missouri on 26 August 2003, President Bush stated: "Because of our men and women in uniform, the torture chambers in Iraq are closed [...] In all the debates over Iraq, we must never forget [...] the brutal nature of the regime of Saddam Hussein [...] Our people in uniform, joined by fine allies, ended this nightmare in Iraq, removed a threat to the world, and they have made our nation proud."On 1 November 2003, the Associated Press presented a special report on the massive human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib. Their report began with the following sentence: "In Iraq's American detention camps, forbidden talk can earn a prisoner hours bound and stretched out in the sun, and detainees swinging tent poles rise up regularly against their jailers, according to recently released Iraqis." The report went on to describe horrible abuse of the prisoners at the hands of their American captors: "'They confined us like sheep,' the newly freed Saad Naif, 38, said of the Americans. 'They hit people. They humiliated people.'" Then-U.S. Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, at the time in charge of all U.S. detention facilities in Iraq, claimed that prisoners were being treated "humanely and fairly" according to the AP. The AP report also stated that as of 1 November 2003 there were "two pending legal cases" against U.S. military personnel: "In one, four soldiers are accused of beating Iraqi prisoners; in the other, two Marines are charged in connection with an Iraqi's death in detention." As revealed in the Taguba Report (2004), an initial criminal investigation by the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command had already been underway, in which soldiers of the 320th Military Police Battalion had been charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice with prisoner abuse. In April 2004, articles describing the abuse, including pictures showing military personnel appearing to abuse prisoners, came to wide public attention when a 60 Minutes II news report (April 28) and an article by Seymour M. Hersh in The New Yorker magazine (posted online on April 30 and published days later in the May 10 issue) reported the story.The United States Department of Defense removed seventeen soldiers and officers from duty, and eleven soldiers were charged with dereliction of duty, maltreatment, aggravated assault and battery. Between May 2004 and March 2006, eleven soldiers were convicted in courts-martial, sentenced to military prison, and dishonorably discharged from service. Two soldiers, Specialist Charles Graner, and his former fiancée, Specialist Lynndie England, were sentenced to ten years and three years in prison, respectively, in trials ending on January 14, 2005 and September 26, 2005. The commanding officer of all Iraq detention facilities, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, was reprimanded for dereliction of duty and demoted to the rank of Colonel on May 5, 2005. Col. Karpinski has denied knowledge of the abuses, claiming that the interrogations were authorized by her superiors and performed by subcontractors, and that she was not allowed entry into the interrogation rooms.The public later learned of what have been called the Torture Memos, prepared in August 2002 and March 14, 2003 (shortly before the Iraq invasion) by the Office of Legal Counsel, United States Department of Justice, which authorized certain enhanced interrogation techniques (generally held to be torture) of foreign detainees who were enemy combatants. The March 2003 memo, written by John Yoo, the deputy in the OLC, said that federal laws on use of torture did not apply to American interrogators overseas. Several United States Supreme Court decisions, including Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006), have overturned Bush administration policy related to treatment of detainees and ruled that Geneva Conventions apply. In addition, these opinions were superseded by replacement opinions in 2009 by the Obama administration.The abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib was in part the reason that on April 12, 2006, the United States Army activated the 201st Military Intelligence Battalion, the first of four joint interrogation battalions.. }

• Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse abstract "From late 2003 to early 2004, during the Iraq War, military police personnel of the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agencycommittedhuman rights violations against prisoners held in the Abu Ghraib prison. They physically and sexually abused, tortured, raped, sodomized, and killedprisoners.What became known as "the Abu Ghraib Scandal" came to public attention in the summer of 2003 beginning with reports from Amnesty International (AI) of human rights abuses by the U.S. and its coalition allies at detention centers and prisons throughout Iraq. Reports of brutal treatment began to emerge from what had been Saddam Hussein's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, recently "liberated" by the U.S.. In a news release dated 20 June 2003, Dr Abdel Salam Sidahmed, Deputy Director of Amnesty International's Middle East Program reported on an uprising by the prisoners against the conditions of their detention at the now American-run Abu Ghraib: "The notorious Abu Ghraib Prison, centre of torture and mass executions under Saddam Hussein, is yet again a prison cut off from the outside world. On 13 June there was a protest in this prison against indefinite detention without trial. Troops from the occupying powers killed one person and woundedseven.". A little over a month later, on July 23, Amnesty International again issued a press release condemning widespread human rights abuses by U.S. and coalition forces: "Former detainees told Amnesty International that people detained by Coalition Forces were held in tents in the extreme heat and were not provided with sufficient drinking water or adequate washing facilities. They were forced to use open trenches for toilets and were not given a change of clothes - even after two months’ detention. [...] Amnesty International has received reports of torture or ill-treatment by Coalition Forces. Reported methods include prolonged sleep deprivation, prolonged restraint in painful positions—sometimes combined with exposure to loud music, prolonged hooding and exposure to bright lights." The stories of widespread abuse and torture of Iraqi civilians at the hands of coalition troops emerged throughout the summer and fall of 2003, with US Government spokesmen and the President himself ignoring the emerging narrative of widespread human rights abuses taking place in prisons and detention centers run by the U.S. military throughout Iraq. On 14 August 2003, speaking at a U.S. military installation at Miramar, Calif., U.S. President George W. Bush declared: "We met the major combat objectives in Operation Iraqi Freedom by removing a regime that persecuted Iraqis, and supported terrorists, and was armed to threaten the peace of the world. All the world is now seeing just how badly the Iraqi people suffered under this brutal dictator. The Iraqi people, themselves, are seeing a new day thanks to the brave men and women who came to liberate them [...] Thanks to our military, Iraqi citizens do not have to fear a secret police, arbitrary arrests, or loved ones lost forever [...] [t]hanks to our military, the torture chambers of a dictator are closed." Speaking to the 85th American Legion Convention in St. Louis, Missouri on 26 August 2003, President Bush stated: "Because of our men and women in uniform, the torture chambers in Iraq are closed [...] In all the debates over Iraq, we must never forget [...] the brutal nature of the regime of Saddam Hussein [...] Our people in uniform, joined by fine allies, ended this nightmare in Iraq, removed a threat to the world, and they have made our nation proud."On 1 November 2003, the Associated Press presented a special report on the massive human rights abuses at Abu Ghraib. Their report began with the following sentence: "In Iraq's American detention camps, forbidden talk can earn a prisoner hours bound and stretched out in the sun, and detainees swinging tent poles rise up regularly against their jailers, according to recently released Iraqis." The report went on to describe horrible abuse of the prisoners at the hands of their American captors: "'They confined us like sheep,' the newly freed Saad Naif, 38, said of the Americans. 'They hit people. They humiliated people.'" Then-U.S. Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, at the time in charge of all U.S. detention facilities in Iraq, claimed that prisoners were being treated "humanely and fairly" according to the AP. The AP report also stated that as of 1 November 2003 there were "two pending legal cases" against U.S. military personnel: "In one, four soldiers are accused of beating Iraqi prisoners; in the other, two Marines are charged in connection with an Iraqi's death in detention." As revealed in the Taguba Report (2004), an initial criminal investigation by the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command had already been underway, in which soldiers of the 320th Military Police Battalion had been charged under the Uniform Code of Military Justice with prisoner abuse. In April 2004, articles describing the abuse, including pictures showing military personnel appearing to abuse prisoners, came to wide public attention when a 60 Minutes II news report (April 28) and an article by Seymour M. Hersh in The New Yorker magazine (posted online on April 30 and published days later in the May 10 issue) reported the story.The United States Department of Defense removed seventeen soldiers and officers from duty, and eleven soldiers were charged with dereliction of duty, maltreatment, aggravated assault and battery. Between May 2004 and March 2006, eleven soldiers were convicted in courts-martial, sentenced to military prison, and dishonorably discharged from service. Two soldiers, Specialist Charles Graner, and his former fiancée, Specialist Lynndie England, were sentenced to ten years and three years in prison, respectively, in trials ending on January 14, 2005 and September 26, 2005. The commanding officer of all Iraq detention facilities, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, was reprimanded for dereliction of duty and demoted to the rank of Colonel on May 5, 2005. Col. Karpinski has denied knowledge of the abuses, claiming that the interrogations were authorized by her superiors and performed by subcontractors, and that she was not allowed entry into the interrogation rooms.The public later learned of what have been called the Torture Memos, prepared in August 2002 and March 14, 2003 (shortly before the Iraq invasion) by the Office of Legal Counsel, United States Department of Justice, which authorized certain enhanced interrogation techniques (generally held to be torture) of foreign detainees who were enemy combatants. The March 2003 memo, written by John Yoo, the deputy in the OLC, said that federal laws on use of torture did not apply to American interrogators overseas. Several United States Supreme Court decisions, including Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006), have overturned Bush administration policy related to treatment of detainees and ruled that Geneva Conventions apply. In addition, these opinions were superseded by replacement opinions in 2009 by the Obama administration.The abuse of detainees at Abu Ghraib was in part the reason that on April 12, 2006, the United States Army activated the 201st Military Intelligence Battalion, the first of four joint interrogation battalions.".