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Give US photos of abused prisoners free
For years there was a lawsuit in the United States: Now, the Pentagon released nearly 200 photos of U.S. soldiers abused prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan show. Much, however, remains unclear.
One of the by the Pentagon released photos of torture by US soldiers
Most of the the US Department of defense shared photos according to official figures, between 2004 and 2006. The 198 images show small lesions such as close-UPS of cuts, haematomas, swelling, and other small wounds of prisoners, in front of around a decade at the U.S. military prison einsaßen. The identity of the prisoners was neither known how the places of ill-treatment. The Pentagon has published little or no context to the photos.
A spokesman said, as a result of the investigations with the U.S. armed forces to Foltervorwürfen was a Militärangehöriger sentenced to life in prison. A total of 65 military personnel due to Pass have been punished.
Also this photo belongs to the now publicised images
Civil rights organisation wants to 2000 see photos
That the pictures are ever made public, is the result of a dispute with the civil rights organisation the American Civil Liberties Union (Aclu), founded in 2004, in connection with the investigation of Foltervorwürfen on the release of some 2000 photos. 2009 wanted President Barack Obama on the debt are received. But the Congress pushed the bar before and decided a law that the Ministry of defence allowed, under certain circumstances, may photos back. This applies, for example, for the case that U.S. citizens or U.S. military personnel be placed in danger.
Documented abuse by U.S. soldiers at a prisoner
At the end of last year, the current Secretary of defense Ashton Carter, said 198 photos to publish, because this national security is not threatened. The citizens ‘ organization Aclu welcomed now the step and criticized at the same time, the U.S. government due to the reluctance of the rest of the required images. You will continue on your share push, said the Aclu representative Jameel Jaffernun. “The still secret pictures are the best proof that the serious ill-treatment in military prison that took place,” he added.
U.S. Secretary of defense Carter gave only photos of free, the the “national security” does not threaten
None of the now-known photos is probably from the notorious Iraqi prison Abu Ghraib in Baghdad. 2004 had pictures of torture and sexual abuse in the prison world for horror and outrage. Eleven US soldiers were between 2004 and 2006 due to these acts of violence are condemned.
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