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Formica Report Annex 41: CID Report: 0233-03-CID259-61217

Mar. 24, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 2531
Documents related to CID Investigations 0233-03-CID259-61217 and 0022-04-CID149-. Includes two Agent's Investigative Reports and a translation of a statement provided by a detainee. The first Agent's Investigative report summarizes interviews with at least four detainees (two female and two male), who described being tortured by the Iraqi police. The first female detainee "Iraqi Police tortured her brother and other young men by forcing water bottles into their rectums and beating them. Detainee stated she was questioned by Iraqi Police and beaten and slapped for over seven hours." A second detainee says she was repeatedly harassed by Iraqi Police, and eventually arrested and beaten. Another detainee claims his confession was obtained after severe humiliation and torture. After he turned himself in at A'Adamia Palace, "during the first interrogation he was beaten without being asked any questions," and "the second interrogation involved a lot of torture and beating on 12/27/2003," including no food or sleep, blindfolding and beatings with brass knuckles. Detainee also alleged that he was kicked in the back, hit his head on the walls, and had a bottle was forced into his anus. State that he confessed to everything, "not because he did it but because he wanted the torture to stop." A fourth detainee "stated during interrogation he was left without food for four days of torture...forced to urinate on himself...sleep standing with hands tied behind his back and blindfolded. He passed out many times from pain." Included is a translated statement by a detainee, describing abuse at "the palace."
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INCIDENTS OF ABUSE MENTIONED:
  • 2003-12-27, Unknown, Iraq
    • Statement by a male detainee, included in a CID investigative file (0233-03-CID259-61217 and 0022-04-CID149-). Detainee stated that he turned himself in to Coalition forces at Al A'Adamia Palace on December 24, 2003, after his sister told him Coalition forces were looking for him. Stated that at the first interrogation "he was beaten without being asked any questions," and that during the second interrogation "there was a lot of torture and beating," which "consisted of no food or sleep and his eyes were blindfolded, he was beaten with brass knuckles on his side, back, and kidneys." Detainee also described being kicked in the back, having his head hit against walls, and having a water bottle forced into his anus. Detainee stated that he confessed "not because he did it, but because he wanted the torture to stop."
  • 2004-03-08, Unknown, Iraq, Death
    • Statement by a female detainee in a CID investigative file (0233-03-CID259-61217 and 0022-04-CID149-). Detainee stated that Iraqi Police arrested and severely beat several young Iraqi men, forcing them to say she was involved in attacks against Coalition forces. She further stated that Iraqi Police tortured and killed her brother, and that her brother and other young men were beaten and had water bottles forced up their rectums. Detainee stated that she was beaten and slapped during questioning by Iraqi Police for "over seven hours."
  • 2004-03-08
    • Statement by a female detainee in a CID investigative file (0233-03-CID259-61217 and 0022-04-CID149-). Detainee stated that she was "continually threatened and harassed" by a member of the Iraqi Police for money, and that following several attempts to obtain money from her, he arrested her and beat her.
  • 2004-03-10, Abu Ghraib (Baghdad Correctional Facility (BCCF)), Iraq
    • Statement by a male detainee, included in a CID file (0233-03-CID259-61217 and 0022-04-CID149-). Detainee stated that "during interrogations at [redacted], he was left without any food, only water for the four days of torture." Detainee stated that he "was not allowed to go to the bathroom" and "was forced to sleep standing with his hands tied behind his back and his eyes blindfolded." He "passed out many times from the pain and torture," and expressed extreme fear of the Iraqi Police who he said had tortured him.