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An official report recommends for the U.S. military to review the conditions of detention in the U.S. prison at Bagram in Afghanistan so as to prevent abuses. Bagram prison, located in the air base of the same name, north of Kabul, houses some 600 detainees suspected of terrorism. Regarded as enemy combatants by the US, these prisoners can be held [...]

Bagram’s ‘King of Torture’ says, “I opened up Abu Ghraib.” He was also sometimes called ‘Monster.’ Damien Corsetti, in charge of interrogation operations, gives a first-person testimony of torture. In simple parlance, his job was to torture some detainees in those CIA secret prisons. Bagram is a US military base in Afghanistan that is [...]

The US CIA secret prisons in Guantanamo, Cuba is more than an incarceration edifice, it is an entire culture of military impunity in handling suspected enemies of the state. The Guantanamo prison will close but another one of such kind and culture exists at the US military base in Bagram, Afghanistan which is 40 miles to Kabul, the country’s capital. [...]