<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Abu Ghraib Prison</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</link><description>Abu Ghraib Prison</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Human Rights Report Is Critical of Allies]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7890-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7890-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The annual State Department report says that upholding human rights will be key to assessing relations with other countries, but omits mention of U.S. prison abuse scandals in Iraq and Afghanistan.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[British Report Accuses U.S. of Human Rights Violations]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64516-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64516-2005Mar24.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  LONDON, March 25  --  The United States has committed "grave violations of human rights" against prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Parliament said in a report on Friday.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Army Documents Shed Light on CIA 'Ghosting']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61206-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61206-2005Mar23.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Defense officials have described the CIA practice of hiding unregistered detainees at Abu Ghraib prison as ad hoc and unauthorized, but new documents show that the "ghosting" program was systematic and known to three senior intelligence officials.]]></description><author> Josh White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Reported Abuse Cases Fell After Abu Ghraib]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42007-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42007-2005Mar16.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The number of reported detainee abuse cases against U.S. Army soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan has declined sharply, with incident reports dropping more than 75 percent from April 2004 to the end of last year.]]></description><author> Josh White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judge Blocks Transfer of 13 Yemeni Detainees]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32116-2005Mar13.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32116-2005Mar13.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A federal judge has blocked the government from transferring 13 Yemenis from the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, until a hearing is held on concerns the detainees may be mistreated in another country.]]></description><author> Siobhan McDonough</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Army, CIA Held 'Ghost' Prisoners at Abu Ghraib]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25239-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25239-2005Mar10.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Top military intelligence officials came to an agreement with the CIA to hide certain detainees at the facility without officially registering them, in possible violation of international law, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.]]></description><author> Josh White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Army Files Cite Abuse of Afghans]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33178-2005Feb17.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33178-2005Feb17.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Members of a special forces unit allegedly beat Afghan civilians last May, prompting complaints from two officers who were present.]]></description><author> R. Jeffrey Smith</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Military Files New Charges in Scandal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32987-2005Feb17.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32987-2005Feb17.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Military prosecutors have filed a new set of charges against Pfc. Lynndie R. England that significantly reduces the Army reservist's potential prison sentence should she be convicted of detainee abuse  at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.]]></description><author> Josh White</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rumsfeld Offered to Quit After Abu Ghraib]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61870-2005Feb3.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61870-2005Feb3.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Defense secretary disclosed that he had offered President Bush his resignation twice during the height of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal last year.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[U.S. Prisons in Iraq Are Nearing Capacity]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24875-2005Jan20.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24875-2005Jan20.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Major U.S.-run detention facilities in Iraq are nearly full, with the number of suspected insurgents in custody at the highest level since March, according to detention officials.]]></description><author> Jackie Spinner</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Graner Gets 10 Years for Abuse at Abu Ghraib]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11973-2005Jan15.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11973-2005Jan15.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Former prison guard said he was ordered to mistreat Iraqis.]]></description><author> T.R. Reid</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Roll Call Of Recent Abuse Cases]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12520-2005Jan15.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12520-2005Jan15.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Recent cases of abuse of Iraqis involving members of the U.S. military:]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Guard Convicted in First Case From Abu Ghraib]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9343-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9343-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Army Spec. Charles A. Graner Jr., a former guard at the Abu Ghraib prison outside of Baghdad, was found guilty Friday on five charges related to abuse of Iraqi prisoners.]]></description><author> T.R. Reid</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Defense Rests in Abuse Court-Martial]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7680-2005Jan13.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7680-2005Jan13.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ FORT HOOD, Tex., Jan. 13 -- After a military judge again rebuffed their efforts to probe the role of senior Army officers in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, defense lawyers for former guard Charles A. Graner Jr. rested their case Thursday, leaving the defendant's fate up to a 10-man military jury.]]></description><author> T.R. Reid</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Witness: Graner Ordered To Beat Prisoners]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4012-2005Jan12.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4012-2005Jan12.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A former inmate at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison testified Wednesday that Army Spec. Charles A. Graner Jr., a former guard and the alleged ringleader of the abuse there, was ordered by military intelligence officers to beat and torture inmates.]]></description><author> T.R. Reid</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Case Against Soldier Is Presented]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1164-2005Jan11.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1164-2005Jan11.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two former inmates of the Abu Ghraib military prison in Iraq testified Tuesday. Both maintained that the abuse of prisoners by American soldiers there, in the words of one of them, "represented the true face of the U.S."]]></description><author> T.R. Reid</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comrades in Arms Reunite as Abu Ghraib Witnesses]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64175-2005Jan10.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64175-2005Jan10.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Former sergeant Kenneth Davis, who will testify for the defense, wants to speak about what he saw and hopes the soldiers he once served with will accept it. Sgt. Robert Jones, summoned by the prosecution, aims to salvage some respect for his Army unit, and for himself.]]></description><author> Elizabeth Williamson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Military Court Hears Abu Ghraib Testimony]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62597-2005Jan10.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A62597-2005Jan10.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Army officers and CIA operatives at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison condoned the beatings and humiliation of Iraqi prisoners in Fort Hood, Texas, a former guard testified as the first military trial stemming from the prison scandal got underway.]]></description><author> T.R. Reid</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Changes Behind the Barbed Wire]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59673-2004Dec12.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59673-2004Dec12.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When a new contract interrogator arrives at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, military officials say, officers now conduct a preliminary interview to make sure the civilian has the proper credentials and experience.]]></description><author> Ellen McCarthy</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Earlier Report of Prison Abuse Released]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45373-2004Dec7.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45373-2004Dec7.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/gulf/iraq/prisoners</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 11:03:07 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A June 25 report is among dozens of documents made public Tuesday that allege brutal and sometimes illegal interrogation methods employed in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.]]></description><author> Barton Gellman  and R. Jeffrey Smith</author></item></channel></rss>