Thousands of male Muslim detainees had been taken to two of the mosques the day before.

She said she had been tear-gassed and beaten when male detainees took over the Esmor center in June 1995, closing it down.

The camp has capacity for 20 male detainees and offers case management in support of offender rehabilitation.

I was puzzled by the lack of context for the photos of the three male Iraqi detainees who were killed so egregiously.

At the same time, the United States military disclosed that a male 26-year-old detainee in southern Iraq died in custody.

Among the most shocking images, several said, was a video of a male detainee repeatedly banging into a cell door, until he collapsed.

The victims remained unidentified and were listed on the charge sheets only as male detainees apparently of Middle Eastern descent.

Some were tortured on improvised metal and wooden "racks" and, in at least one case, a male detainee was raped with a baton.

A destructive riot by male detainees protesting abysmal conditions closed the center down and started her on a yearlong prison odyssey.

It originally had 200 places for both male and female detainees, however in 1997, capacity was reduced to 184 and the centre became male only.