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In her video diary, a prison guard said that prisoners were shot for minor misbehavior, and claimed to have had used to bite prisoners, sometimes resulting in their deaths. The guard said that she was “in trouble” for having thrown rocks at the detainees. Hashem Muhsen, one of the naked prisoners in the human pyramid photo, later said the men were also forced to crawl around the floor naked while soldiers rode them like donkeys.
In February 2006, previously unreleased photos and videos were broadcast by , an Australian television network, on its program. The Bush administration attempted to prevent release of the images in the U.S., arguing that their publication could provoke antagonism. These newly released photographs depicted prisoners crawling on the floor naked, being forced to perform sexual acts, and being covered in feces. Some images also showed prisoners killed by the soldiers, some shot in the head and some with slit throats. BBC World News stated that one of the prisoners, who was reportedly mentally unstable, was considered by prison guards as a “pet” for torture. The UN expressed hope that the pictures would be investigated immediately, but the Pentagon stated that the images “have been previously investigated as part of the Abu Ghraib investigation.”
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Half-naked inmates with their hands tied sit on the floor surrounded by armed police officers at a prison, in Rosario, Argentina, March 6, 2024, in this picture obtained from social media. Patricia Bullrich via X/via REUTERS
A mentally ill woman, who wardens identified as Sandy, stands naked in a squalid cell, in Juba’s Central Prison, in South Sudan. Her body showed signs of ritual scarification. There are no dedicated mental health facilities in Africa’s newest country, so families often dump sick relatives at the nearest jail, where staff have little training or medication with which to treat them. Juba women’s prison also houses four death row inmates. France, the EU and church groups have called on the government to suspend executions.
