Report details allegations of torture at Iraqi secret prison
April 27, 2010 8:18 p.m. EDT
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has told The Los Angeles Times that he was unaware of any abuse at the prison.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Human rights group releases interviews with 42 men who'd been kept at secret prison
- Iraqi prime minister closed prison this month; group says Iraqi army officers arrested
- Closure came after Los Angeles Times reported on allegations of torture, abuse
- Detainees say they were blindfolded, hung upside down, sexually abused
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Baghdad, Iraq (CNN) -- A report released Tuesday by a human rights group details allegations of horrific torture and abuse at a secret prison in Iraq where detainees say they were routinely beaten, shocked and sodomized by their interrogators.
The report by Human Rights Watch was based on interviews conducted Monday with 42 prisoners who had been held at a secret facility in west Baghdad's old Muthanna airport since late 2009.
The men were among 300 detainees who were transferred in recent weeks to another detention center after the existence of the Muthanna prison was revealed, Human Rights Watch said.
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