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Agence France Presse Reports Sexual Abuse of Female Prisoners
From Jihad UnspunEyewitnesses have confirmed that Iraqi women prisoners held in the US concentration camp at Abu Ghurayb have been subjected to rape and various types of humiliation, according to reports by non-governmental organizations and testimony collected by the Agence France Presse . Eman Khammas, Director of the non-governmental International Center for Observing the Occupation, reports that one former woman prisoner related how her cellmate in Abu Ghurayb was raped. Khammas said that the prisoner told her how âthey brought my companion back to the cell unconscious. She remained unconscious for 48 hours. Then she told me how members of the Iraqi puppet police raped her 17 times in one day under the gaze of the American soldiers,â according to AFP. Muhammad Dahham al-Muhammad, Chairman of the Federation of Prisoners and Detainees, is preparing affidavits collected by his work team from former women prisoners or their relatives. The Federation has, for example, the testimony of a woman concerning the repeated rape of her sister by US soldiers in front of her husband in Abu Ghurayb prison. The raped woman prisoner was originally arrested by the US aggressors in December 2003. She was released at the beginning of May 2004. The woman giving the testimony, the sister of the victim, said, âUS forces raided my sisterâs house in Baghdad to arrest her husband. When they found he wasnât there, they arrested her. My brother-in-law went and gave himself up to the Americans who then detained both of them." The woman said that her sister told her, âthey led me to a cell and I saw my husband chained to the bars. An American soldier pulled my hair so as to raise my head to look at him as they stripped my clothes off. ... an American soldier raped me several times in front of my husband." ... One Iraqi woman, formerly a prisoner in Abu Ghurayb, told of how she was raped by three Iraqi stooges of the occupation in the prison, the reason being that she was a member of the Arab Socialist Baâth Party. The woman said that when she tried to frighten one of her attackers with the thought of Godâs retribution, telling him that it was not right to do this to fellow countrymen, the man replied, âmaybe this will atone for the sin that you committed against al-Husayn.â (Al-Husayn ibn âAli, a revered figure among Shiâi Muslims...) .... Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-06-01 |
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