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In 2004, reports emerged of numerous instances of abuse of prisoners in the Baghdad Correctional Facility, formerly Abu Ghraib Prison, by personnel of the U.S. armed forces occupying Iraq, beginning in 2003.
The abuse gained more attention after U.S. soldier Joseph Darby placed an anonymous note under his commander's door.
The Pentagon began an investigation, although the matter did not come to the attention of the general public until The New Yorker article by Seymour M. Hersh of April 30 showed digital photos taken by guards; the story was subsequently taken up by CBS.
After the revelations by Hersh and CBS, some took the Bush administration to task and demanded the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. These critics promoted the theory that authorities either ordered or condoned the abuses.
Charges were brought against several low-ranking personnel.
See also Abu_Ghraib_Prison#Under Saddam Hussein
During the Ba'athist regime of Saddam HusseinSaddm Hussein 'Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti Hussein also spelled Husayn and Hussain Arabic: ; born April 28, 1937 1) was President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. A rising star in the revolutionary Ba'ath Party, which espoused secular Arab nationalism, economic mod in IraqThe Republic of Iraq is a Middle Eastern country in southwestern Asia encompassing the ancient region of Mesopotamia. It shares borders with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to the south, Turkey to the north, Syria to the north-west, Jordan to the west and Iran to, Abu Ghraib Prison had a reputation as a place of tortureTorture is the infliction of severe physical or psychological pain as a means of cruelty, intimidation, punishment, for the extraction of a confession or information or simply for the entertainment of the perpetrator. Signatories of the Third Geneva Conve. It was the site of the torture and execution of thousands of political prisoners — up to 4000 prisoners are thought to have been executed there in 1984This page is about the year 1984. For other uses of 1984, see 1984 (disambiguation). 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday (link shows calendar). Events January January 1 Brunei becomes a fully independent state January 1 AT&T is broken up into 22 indepe alone. Prisoners were routinely executed; guards fed prisoners into plastic shredders; there are allegations that some of these detainees were subjected to experiments as part of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons program.
It was the opinion of senior UK officials that the prison should be demolished as soon as possible; this was, however, over-ruled by the US authorities.
See also Abu_Ghraib_Prison#Under the US-led coalition
Since the fall of the Ba'athist regime the prison has been used as a detention facility by the U.S.-led coalition occupying Iraq, holding more than 5,000 people, some alleged rebels, some alleged criminals and others free of any such allegations.
As of 2004, the site is officially known as the Baghdad Correctional Facility, though it remains better known under its original official name.
In late April 20042004 : January February March April May June July August September October November December Deaths in April • 18 Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara • 19 Norris McWhirter • 22 Pat Tillman • 24 Estee Lauder Other recent deaths Ongoing events EU Enlargement Exploration, U.S. television news-magazine 60 Minutes II broke a story involving abuse and humiliation of Iraqi inmates by a small group of U.S. soldiers. The story included photographs depicting the abuse of prisoners. As far back as June 2003, Amnesty International called for an independent investigation of the U.S. detention system in Iraq, in response to off-the-record descriptions of conditions within it.
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