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| Violations at prisons noted in '03 |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 06/07/2004 |
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An Army general who visited the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq last fall reported that the military was violating international regulations by incarcerating insurgents captured in attacks against US-led forces with common criminals. It was one among dozens of observations in a still-classified report, obtained last week by the Associated Press, portraying an overcrowded, dysfunctional prison system lacking basic sanitation and medical supplies. "Due to operational limitations, facility limitations, and force protection issues, there are criminal detainees collocated with other types of detainees, including security detainees," wrote Major General Donald Ryder, the Army's provost martial general. "However, the [Fourth] Geneva Convention does not allow this." Mixing such prisoners "invites confusion about handling, processing, and treatment," he said. Article 84 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits housing prisoners of war and "persons deprived of liberty for any other reason" with general criminal populations. The rules also require that enemy prisoners be kept in facilities "affording every guarantee of hygiene and healthfulness." Ryder's 64-page report, dated Nov. 5, states at the outset that investigators found no evidence of "inappropriate" treatment of Iraqi detainees by military police. An Army spokesman declined to comment on the report. |
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