Bagram torture and prisoner abuse

A rare look inside Bagram air base and claims of abuse at a ‘secret jail’

August 14, 2013Global Politics

In 2002, two prisoners were killed in U.S. custody at a prison on Bagram air base in Afghanistan after being suspended from the ceiling and brutally beaten. Since then, other abuses have allegedly occurred in a separate, secret facility at Bagram.

Inside U.S. prison in Bagram

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Red Cross video link at Bagram

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