Months ago, there were news reports of two detainees at Bagram who said they were abused in a secret "black jail" facility to which the International Committee of the Red Cross has been denied access. Last week, a BBC reporter said she had spoken to nine former detainees who corroborated both the existence of the facility and the allegation that detainees are abused there:
The prisoners, who were interviewed separately, all told very similar stories. Most of them said they had been beaten by American soldiers at the point of arrest before being taken to the prison.
Mirwais had half a row of teeth missing, which he said was from being struck with the butt of a gun by an American soldier.
No-one said they were visited by the International Committee of the Red Cross during their detention at the site, and they all said that their families did not know where they were.
U.S. Officials, for their part, have continued to deny the existence of the facility.
-- A. Serwer
