“Ali, age 26, was detained at various Iraqi locations from July 2003 to June 2004. He was subjected to beatings with hands, feet and chains to the point of unconsciousness, stabbing, burning, shocks and mutilation, isolation while naked and hooded in a coffin-like box, prolonged sleep deprivation enforced by beatings and being dragged face-down on the ground, desecration of the Koran, soldiers urinating on him, extreme deprivation of food and water, mock executions and threats of death and transfer to Guantánamo or other countries.” American Civil Liberties Union and Human Rights First, Afghan and Iraqi Prisoners Detail Abuse By US Torturers, Don Knowland, 08/03/2005 http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=5764
"There were rules: for three months, there was no talking, no praying, and no reading Qur’an. The only things allowed were breathing, eating, using the toilet. You could pray and recite Qu'ran in your heart, but not out loud.” (Testimony of ‘Salaam’, Iraqi formerly held in Abu Ghraib, Christian Peacemaker Team, http://www.cageprisoners.com/prisoners.php?id=1440)
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