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Many dead in U.S. overseas prisons
WASHINGTON, February 22—Almost
100 prisoners have died in the prisons maintained by
the United States in Afghanistan and Iraq since
August 2002, according to a study reported by BBC
Television.
The number of dead in those
prisons is as high as 98, and eight to 12 of those
cases are prisoners who were victims of torture.
According to this study carried
out by a human rights organization, at least 34 of
the total dead were killed as a result of voluntary
or involuntary homicide, PL reported.
The study’s findings include the
case of a prisoner who was thrown from a bridge into
the Tigris River by U.S. soldiers, as well as
another who lost his life suffocated by his captors
in a sleeping bag.
“We trust in the truthfulness and
objectivity of the facts” reflected in the document,
given that they are based on Pentagon reports to
which the investigators had access under the Freedom
of Information Act, noted Deborah Pearlstein, who
led the study.
The
study was made public just a few days after an
Australian television network published new
photographs showing torture applied by U.S. soldiers
to Iraqi prisoners in the Abu Ghraib prison.
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