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The Canary
March 9, 2017
Finally, they transferred them to Bagram's 'Black Jail' in Afghanistan. At the facilities, one plaintiff describes being beaten, stripped, and locked in solitary confinement with rats and cockroaches, among other horrific practices detailed in court documents. The government is trying to prevent the public fromÃÂ ...
BuzzFeed News
July 13, 2016
Ten detainees said they were abused at a secret “black jail” that the Obama administration reportedly ran at Bagram, where detainees said they faced death threats, barking dogs, and beatings. The Defense Department did not respond to questions about the abuse allegations detailed in the document orÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 11, 2014
Even after the US government stopped the most brutal torture techniques, the military continued to run a secret “black jail” on the site, where prisoners were subjected to sleep deprivation, cold, forced nudity and other mistreatment, with detainees cut off from their families and lawyers. The closure of the lastÃÂ ...
ProPublica
July 13, 2012
2 Afghans Allege Abuse at U.S. Site, Washington Post, and Afghans Detail Detention in 'Black Jail' at U.S. Base, New York Times, November 2009. Some of the first revelations about U.S. Joint Special Operations Command secret jail at Bagram Air Force Base emerged from these interviews with AfghansÃÂ ...
Wired News
August 24, 2010
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — Walking out of the new detention center and out into the dusty courtyard, I've got one final question for Gen. ... accelerated after the BBC claimed to have confirmed with the International Committee of the Red Cross in May that the new Parwan center has a “Black Jail.
The Atlantic (blog)
May 14, 2010
Instead, it is manned by intelligence operatives and interrogators who work for the DIA's Defense Counterintelligence and Human Intelligence Center (DCHC). They perform interrogations for a sub-unit of Task Force 714, an elite counter-terrorism brigade. Called the "black jail" by some of those who haveÃÂ ...
Wired News
May 12, 2010
The U.S. military is getting set to expand its controversial detention camp at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan – just as new reports of a "black jail" inside the facility are surfacing. In a solicitation issued today, the U.S. military put out a request for a contractor to build three new detention housing units next to theÃÂ ...
BBC News
April 15, 2010
Afghan prisoners are being abused in a "secret jail" at Bagram airbase, according to nine witnesses whose stories the BBC has documented. The abuses are all said to have taken place since US President Barack Obama was elected, promising to end torture. The US military has denied the existence of aÃÂ ...
World Socialist Web Site
November 30, 2009
The jail, located on the Bagram Air Base next to the notorious Bagram prison north of Kabul, operates under the executive order of President Obama. ... Hamidullah, who was held five and a half months in detention, including five to six weeks in the black jail, said he heard the sounds of other detaineesÃÂ ...
New York Times
November 28, 2009
KABUL , Afghanistan — An American military detention camp in Afghanistan is still holding inmates, sometimes for weeks at a time, without access to the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to human rights researchers and former detainees held at the site on the Bagram Air Base. The siteÃÂ ...
The Canary
September 16, 2017
Finally, they transferred them to Bagram's 'Black Jail' in Afghanistan. At the facilities, one plaintiff describes being beaten, stripped, and lockedÃÂ ...
The Canary
March 9, 2017
Finally, they transferred them to Bagram's 'Black Jail' in Afghanistan. At the facilities, one plaintiff describes being beaten, stripped, and lockedÃÂ ...
BuzzFeed News
July 13, 2016
But a person familiar with interrogation at Bagram, who spoke on ..... secret “black jail” that the Obama administration reportedly ran at Bagram,ÃÂ ...
The Guardian
December 11, 2014
The first American detention centre at Bagram airbase was set up soon ... the military continued to run a secret “black jail” on the site, whereÃÂ ...
BBC News
February 12, 2014
The BBC's Yalda Hakim was recently given unprecedented access to Afghanistan's Bagram jail. On the day 65 detainees were controversiallyÃÂ ...
ProPublica
July 13, 2012
A U.S. captain looks on during a media tour of Bagram prison, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 15, 2009. (Massoud Hossaini/AFP/GettyÃÂ ...
CounterPunch
January 10, 2012
One troubling constant across the developments at Bagram is the ... former prisoners have referred to it as the Tor Jail, translated as “Black Jail.
The Atlantic (blog)
May 14, 2010
Called the "black jail" by some of those who have transited through it, ... to the main prison population at the Bagram Theater Internment Facility.
The Public Record
May 13, 2010
Red Cross Confirms Second Secret Prison At Bagram Where Detainees Have Been ... In the black jail, they can do anything to detainees.
BBC News
May 11, 2010
The US airbase at Bagram in Afghanistan contains a facility for ... to by many former prisoners as the Tor Jail, which translates as "black jail".
BBC News
April 15, 2010
Afghan prisoners are being abused in a "secret jail" at Bagram airbase, according to nine witnesses whose stories the BBC has documented.
Democracy Now
February 2, 2010
One is, as you mentioned, the Black Jail, which is also on Bagram and is run by US Special Forces. There's also other prisons that are on otherÃÂ ...
World Socialist Web Site
November 30, 2009
“They beat up other people in the black jail, but not me,” he said. ... Prisoners at Bagram are denied access to legal assistance or the right toÃÂ ...
New York Times
November 28, 2009
The site, known to detainees as the black jail, consists of individual ... The black jail is separate from the larger Bagram detention center, whichÃÂ ...
The Canary
March 9, 2017
Finally, they transferred them to Bagram's 'Black Jail' in Afghanistan. At the facilities, one plaintiff describes being beaten, stripped, and locked in solitary confinement with rats and cockroaches, among other horrific practices detailed in court ...
The Canary
March 9, 2017
Finally, they transferred them to Bagram's 'Black Jail' in Afghanistan. At the facilities, one plaintiff describes being beaten, stripped, and locked in solitary confinement with rats and cockroaches, among other horrific practices detailed in court ...
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