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| |  | | Ivan L. Frederick II | | | context : | Iraq  | | judgement place : | United States | | status : | Sentenced | | particulars : | Sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment by a military tribunal | | position : | Sergeant, Reservist of the US army, guard in Abu Ghraib prison |
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| | | | Ivan L. Frederick II was born in 1966 or 1967. In Buckingham, Virginia, he worked as a guard at the correctional centre. His unit was sent to Iraq in 2003 and deployed in Abu Ghraib prison.
In late 2003, rumours started circulating that members of the US army had been mistreating and torturing Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison. In January 2004, Joseph Darby, a member of the US military police, informed the army leadership about these abuses and supplied the officer in charge with photographic material. The pictures documented scenes in which naked Iraqi detainees were being beaten and forced to simulate sexual acts.
At the end of January 2004, the commander-in-chief of the multinational troops in Iraq, General Ricardo Sanchez, instructed General Antonio Taguba to set up an inquiry into the affair. The findings of his investigation were handed over to the authorities in charge on 4 April 2004.
The so-called Taguba report (see 'links') concluded that American soldiers carried out acts of humiliation which severely violated international law. It states that numerous 'sadistic abuses' were inflicted upon detainees of Abu Ghraib between October and December 2003. The guards had set up their own rules, which were condoned more or less explicitly by their superiors.
The report mentions numerous examples of maltreatment towards detainees, such as physical and sexual abuse, torture, intimidation by use of military dogs and the threat of rape and killing.
The report specifically named seven suspects:, Javal Davis, Charles Graner, Sabrina Harman, Megan Ambuhl, Jeremy Sivits, Lynndie England (see 'related cases') and Ivan Frederick II.
Ivan L. Frederick II was indicted by the US army on 12 May 2004. | |     click for more... | | Trial Watch would like to remind its users that any person charged by national or international authorities is presumed innocent until proven guilty. | |  |  | | period of charges : | | | 10.2003 - 01.2004 | | | judgement period : | | | 12.05.2004 - 20.10.2004 | | | charges : | | | Torture
War crimes | | | profile last modified : | | | 13.11.2009 |
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