Ali Shallal al-Qaisi ( ar, علي شلال القیسي) is an Iraqi who was captured in
United States
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custody during
CIA
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interrogation
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Abu Ghraib Prison
Abu Ghraib prison ( ar, سجن أبو غريب, ''Sijn Abū Ghurayb'') was a prison complex in Abu Ghraib, Iraq, located west of Baghdad. Abu Ghraib prison was opened in the 1950s and served as a maximum-security prison with torture, weekly exe ...
in 2003. His name became known in 2004 when the
prisoner torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib made news.
Al-Qaisi said: "I'm spending sleepless nights thinking about the agony I went through... I even have recurring nightmares that I'm in my cell at Abu Ghraib, cell 49 as they called it, being tortured at the hands of the people of a great nation that carries the torch of freedom and human rights."
According to Al-Qaisi, the US military seized his football pitch for the purpose of dumping corpses and waste. He was arrested after attempting to contact foreign reporters about the incident.
Al-Qaisi has had to undergo six surgeries from the torture he was subject to. His left hand is mutilated due to
electrocution
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Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
During the early stages of the Iraq War, members of the United States Army and the CIA committed a series of human rights violations and war crimes against detainees in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, including Physical abuse, physical and sexu ...
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1962 births
Living people
Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
Iraqi torture victims
People from Baghdad
Photography in Iraq
Victims of human rights abuses