ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A former detainee at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison described to jurors Monday the type of abuse that revives attention on the
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A former detainee at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison described to jurors Monday the type of abuse that revives attention on theThe testimony from Salah Al-Ejaili, a former Al-Jazeera journalist who spent more than a month at Abu Ghraib in 2003, marks the first time that survivors of the U.S. prison in Iraq have been able to bring their claims of torture to a U.S. jury.
First, he questioned whether the three detainees who filed the lawsuit can actually prove they themselves were abused. They are not pictured in the most widely circulated photographs that leaked in 2004 when news of the abuse broke and shocked the world. He told the jury that official records show no formal interrogations of Al-Ejaili, for instance, even though he testified that he was interrogated many times, and frequently beaten at the outset of each interrogation.
“They were MPs who were sadistic, who did it on their own, and without any encouragement,” O’Connor said, of the range in military police. “This case is about one of the most disturbing and shameful events in recent American history,” Azmy said at the outset of his opening statement.
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