The front page of Britain's Daily Mirror tabloid May 1 showed a picture of a British soldier apparently urinating on a hooded prisoner.

The paper's editor, Piers Morgan, said May 2 that it planned to publish more details of alleged abuse by "a small rogue element of soldiers who committed totally unacceptable acts against Iraqi civilians."

The British claims surfaced after the American network CBS broadcast images allegedly showing Iraqis stripped naked, hooded and being tormented by their U.S. captors.

Six U.S. soldiers face courts-martial in connection with allegations of mistreatment of detainees.

The New Yorker magazine said May 1 that it had obtained an internal U.S. Army report saying Iraqi detainees were subjected to "sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses" at the Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, which was once used for torture by deposed dictator Saddam Hussein.

Nicole Choueiry, Middle East spokesman for Amnesty International, said the group had received "scores" of reports of ill-treatment of detainees by British and U.S. troops.

"We've been documenting allegations of torture for a year," she said. "We have said there are patterns of torture."

The Japan Times Weekly: May 8, 2004
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