#ABU GHRAIB

[follow-up-news]

A U.S. jury on Tuesday awarded $42 million to three former detainees of Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison, holding a Virginia-based military contractor responsible for contributing to their torture and mistreatment two decades ago. The decision from the eight-person jury came after a different jury earlier this year couldn’t agree on whether Reston, Virginia-based CACI should be held liable for the work of its civilian interrogators who worked alongside the U.S. Army at Abu Ghraib in 2003 and 2004. The jury awarded plaintiffs Suhail Al Shimari, Salah Al-Ejaili and Asa’ad Al-Zubae $3 million each in compensatory damages and $11 million each in punitive damages. The three testified that they were subjected to beatings, sexual abuse, forced nudity and other cruel treatment at the prison.

[drsonnet]

Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center..Finally, #CNN SPEAKS (May, 2024)

Sde Teiman: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center | CNN

| تحقيق لسي إن إن: - انتهاكات وتعذيب لمعتقلين فلسطينيين على يد جنود إسرائيليين في مركز اعتقال سري بالنقب. - شهادات مخبرين إسرائيليين كشفت أن ال��عتقلين الفلسطينيين يعيشون ظروفا قاسية للغاية.

Update from #Khan Yunis (May, 2024) :

Palestinian citizens, who have been kidnapped by Israel's military from Khan Yunis | (Jan., 2024)

Palestinian men detained by Israeli forces since the start of the war in Gaza have told Middle East Eye how they were physically tortured with dogs and electricity, subjected to mock executions, and held in humiliating and degrading conditions. (March, 2024)

www.middleeasteye.net

long live the resistance : This is what Farouq looks like after severe... (tumblr.com) Dec, 2023

[paleosiberian]

[mourntomidnight]

Yt feminists, r*dfems: “Women are incapable of violence and rape, I swear it’s just men that do it!”

Also yt women:

[chaiaurchaandni]

saw someone on twitter, whose family is in gaza, say the same thing: her sister told her that israelis are executing palestinian men and boys aged over 16, abducting them, forcing them to strip. these are displaced civilians and survivors. some people are defending the forceful stripping by saying that the purpose is to ensure there's no bomber vest/weapons which is ridiculous bec if that was the purpose, why are they taking pictures like trophies and circulating them online? why do they even suspect civilian men and boys trying to find safety with their families to be wearing a bomber vest? israelis have been releasing videos of stripping and beating palestinians since oct 7 - many of the palestinians victimized this way have been from the west bank. palestinians held in israeli jails are also stripped and beaten in a way that is hauntingly reminiscent of american crimes in abu ghraib prison in iraq.

[agentfascinateur]

The Israeli Abu Ghraib ?

They paint a picture of a facility where doctors sometimes amputated prisoners’ limbs due to injuries sustained from constant handcuffing; of medical procedures sometimes performed by underqualified medics earning it a reputation for being “a paradise for interns”; and where the air is filled with the smell of neglected wounds left to rot.

...

"(The beatings) were not done to gather intelligence. They were done out of revenge,” said another whistleblower. “

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

A U.S. jury awarded $42 million in damages to three Iraqi civilians Tuesday, holding a military contractor accountable for torture during the "war on terror."

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/military-industrial-complex/military-contractor-found-guilty-for-torture-of-iraqi-civilians-in-abu-ghraib

A U.S. jury awarded $42 million in damages to three Iraqi civilians Tuesday, holding a military contractor accountable for torture during the "war on terror."

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/military-industrial-complex/military-contractor-found-guilty-for-torture-of-iraqi-civilians-in-abu-ghraib

#TheFreeThoughtProject

[theoszczepanski]

The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed on behalf of former detainees in 2008 against Virginia-based defense company CACI Premier Technology Inc., according to a press release from the Center for Constitutional Rights – the organization representing the plaintiffs.

The plaintiffs alleged the company was hired by the US government following the US invasion of Iraq to provide interrogation services at Abu Ghraib, a US Army detention facility where Iraqi detainees were brutally tortured.

The plaintiffs, Suhail Al Shimari, a middle school principal, Asa’ad Zuba’e, a fruit vendor, and Salah Al-Ejaili, a journalist, each received $3 million in compensatory damages and $11 million in punitive damages, according to the release and court documents.

[cerebrodigital]

Hace 20 años... 💀

Contexto:

[singinginthecar]

i still remember being a teenager and the first time i saw pictures from abu ghraib prison from the iraq war. i thought it was despicable. unfathomable the levels that the american military had gone to physically torture and dehumanize prisoners of war and to murder them. then, i remember growing up and seeing pictures from sri lanka's genocide of the tamil people (or as western media likes to call it, "sri lanka's civil war"). i'll never forget seeing those pictures and videos of tamil civilians bombed, murdered, raped, mutilated. i'll never be able to erase the cries i heard in those videos. pictures of innocent children bombed in schools. civilians bombed in supposed "safe zones". international media and western countries did nothing. and when i think nothing could possibly get worse... i see pictures & videos from gaza day after day... for the past 7 months. i've seen mutilated bodies. bombed bodies. bodies crushed under rubble. bodies flattened by tanks. burned bodies charred beyond recognition. i didn't know what shrapnel injuries looked like until now. compression injuries. i didn't... know... that things like this could be done to human beings. and they are. i hear stories and see pictures that are worse than the day before. the depravity and the moral apathy continues to worsen. and in moments like this, it's hard knowing that the ones who have all the power to stop these war crimes are only enabling it. and i'm consumed with so much rage that the world somehow keeps spinning despite it all. i'm mad at our governments. i'm mad at anyone who has any power to say or do something about it and chooses to do nothing or straight up enables it. there's got to be a better way. we can't keep living with these systems in power who inflict such pain into entire generations of people and never face any consequences for it.

[rwpohl]

das experiment, oliver hirschbiegel 2001

träume, rio reiser, himmel & hölle 1995

das bischen kram hatte er einfach stehen lassen und den schlüssel in den briefkasten seines vermieters geworfen. nun saß er in einem zug, lehnte mit der stirn an der scheibe des fensters in seinem abteil. die arbeiter, die nicht mehr benötigte gleise wegräumten, die sah er nicht.

abreise_fragment, notizen leipzig 2006

härtefall_kahla edit 2014

material buw: semesterausstellung blind faces, e-werk weimar 1997

[gregdotorg]

Imagine being such a war criminal you made Richard Serra turn to figuration. Three times.

images: all Richard Serra, Stop Bush, from a 2004 Artforum portfolio; Stop BS, 2004, a drawing variation; Abu Ghraib, 2004, from the Kerry/Edwards fundraising print portfolio

[nando161mando]

Report: The United States Tortured 8,000 People at Abu Ghraib; 70% to 90% of Them Were Innocent

[mindofsombre]

[agentfascinateur]

Diana Buttu speaks to Palestinian survivors of torture by Israeli Forces

Abu Hamza told me about months of torture, of being blindfolded, with his body folded – knees and head to the ground for days on end; of being forced to drink urine and salt water whenever he requested water; of being denied food only to be then forced to eat food with maggots (he lost 30 kg – about 66 lbs) during his three-month abduction; of only being permitted to shower once every 50 days; of being forced to wear the same clothes for three straight months; of being beaten with a baton to the point of unconsciousness several times; and of Israeli soldiers breaking his hands and then making him crawl on all fours. “They enjoyed it,” he said. “I could hear them laughing and howling as they beat us.”