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Formica Report Annex 63: Statement of Detainee
Sworn statement of female Iraqi detainee whose siblings were also held at Adhamiya. States, "I have two sisters and five brothers. One brother died at [redacted]." Detainee was interrogated at Adhamiya palace for four or five days and "beaten and made to stand for the entire time." States that she was threatened with electrical wires, beaten, and blindfolded. Continues, "I saw the linguist who was with [redacted], he was shoving the bottle in five or six people. I saw them stick a bottle up several people's rectums. When we were transported from the palace to the police academy we were beaten so badly we bled, I had blood on me from other people bleeding. There were a lot of Americans present". States that at the Police Academy she was told her brother died.
- 2003-12-23, Adhamiya (Adhamiya Palace), Iraq, Death
- Statement by a female detainee at Abu Ghraib. States that on December 23, 2003, she was arrested and taken to al-Adhamiya Palace, where she was held for "four or five days" and "beaten and made to stand the entire time." Also refers to her siblings (two sisters and five brothers), and states that one brother was "beaten badly" and one sister was "beaten at Adhamiya by slapping." While being interrogated at Adhamiya, detainee was threatened with electrical wires and blindfolded. States, "I saw the linguist who was with [redacted] and he was shoving the bottle on five or six people. I saw them stick a bottle up several people's rectums, one after another." Detainee was subsequently transported from Adhamiya to the "police academy" along with five others; states, "All six of us were beaten up between the palace and the policy academy so bad we were bleeding.... There were a lot of Americans present. I was at the police academy for six days.... At the police academy the told me my brother [redacted] died."