Wednesday, 26. May 2004

Prisoner abuse 'on wider scale', US report says


An official US army overview of the deaths and alleged abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan has revealed a wider scale of mistreatment than has so far come to light, it was reported today.

The New York Times today said it had obtained a recent army synopsis of the status of investigations into 36 cases of alleged abuse relating to US units.

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