The human-rights advocacy group Human Rights Watch has alleged that the United States operated a secret prison near Afghanistan's capital of Kabul where detainees were kept in dark cells and rattled by loud music, including songs by Eminem and Dr.Dre.
According to the report posted on the group's Web site on Monday, an Ethiopian-born detainee claimed he was kept in a pitch-black prison cell in the facility, referred to as "Dark Prison," and described being forced to listen to hip-hop and heavy metal tunes at a loud volume for 20 straight days, after which the music was replaced by "horrible ghost laughter and Halloween sounds."
The report, based on the accounts of eight detainees at the Guantбnamo Bay prison for suspected terrorists in Cuba, also contains claims that prisoners were deprived of sleep, food and clean water and chained to walls and slapped and punched during interrogations. HRW didn't speak to detainees directly, but said it had gotten the accounts of the alleged torture from their lawyers. The detainees claimed to have been held at the Kabul facility between 2002 and 2004.
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