page_title: Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
section_title: Associated Press report, 2003
hierarchical_section_title: Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse / Media coverage / Associated Press report, 2003
caption_attribution_description: English: 10:47 p.m. Dec. 12, 2003. Two dog handlers have dogs watching detainee, while GRANER orders detainee to floor. SOLDIER(S): CPL GRANER, SGT SMITH and SGT CORDONA two dogs are Duco and Marko. All caption information is taken directly from CID materials. U.S. Army / Criminal Investigation Command (CID). Seized by the U.S. Government. Note: Image from Abu Ghraib released May 9, 2004. An Iraqi inmate at Abu Ghraib prison terrorized by dogs.
context_page_description: During the early stages of the Iraq War, United States Army and Central Intelligence Agency personnel committed a series of human rights violations against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, including physical and sexual abuse, torture, rape, sodomy, and murder. The abuses came to public attention with the publication of photographs of the abuse by CBS News in April 2004. The incidents received widespread condemnation both within the United States and abroad, although the torturers received support from some conservative media in the United States.
  The administration of George W. Bush asserted that the abuses at Abu Ghraib were isolated incidents and were not indicative of U.S. policy. This assertion was disputed by humanitarian organizations such as the Red Cross, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch; these organizations stated that the abuses at Abu Ghraib were part of a wider pattern of torture and brutal treatment at American overseas detention centers, including those in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and at Guantanamo Bay.
  Documents popularly known as the Torture Memos came to light a few years later.
context_section_description: On November 1, 2003, the Associated Press published a lengthy report on inhumane treatment, beatings, and deaths at Abu Ghraib and other American prisons in Iraq. This report was based on interviews with released detainees, who told journalist Charles J. Hanley that inmates had been attacked by dogs, made to wear hoods, and humiliated in other ways. The article gained little notice. One freed detainee said that he wished somebody would publish pictures of what was happening.
  When the U.S. military first acknowledged the abuse in early 2004, much of the United States media once again showed little initial interest. On January 16, 2004, the United States Central Command informed the media that an official investigation had begun involving abuse and humiliation of Iraqi detainees by a group of U.S. soldiers. On February 24, it was reported that 17 soldiers had been suspended. The military announced on March 21, 2004, that the first charges had been filed against six soldiers. None of these stories received significant coverage in the mainstream press.
caption: A man is intimidated, or threatened, by at least two dogs
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