New Delhi: An Australian television station has released photographs of abuse inside Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison.
The US government has so far been fighting against the release of these gruesome never before seen images - said to be taken in 2003.
The pictures are much more graphic than the ones released in 2004 that sparked off international outrage.
They appear to show to a much larger extent the sort of torture that US soldiers are accused of putting inmates at the prison through - one photograph shows a man with a slit throat, others of naked and hooded prisoners being subjected to beatings and cigarette burns.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has been granted access to the photographs under Freedom of Information provisions, but the US government is currently appealing the decision.
Graphic new photographs have emerged of prisoners being abused by US soldiers inside Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, which apparently reveal a greater extent of mistreatment in the 2003 prisoner abuse scandal.
The images, which were shown on SBS's programme on Wednesday, were taken at the same time as the infamous photographs of US soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners inside Abu Ghraib, which sparked international outrage after they were leaked in 2004.
SBS refused to give details on the source of the photographs, and the authenticity of the images could not be verified independently.
The images shown by SBS were consistent with the earlier photographs of abuse by American soldiers, which triggered outrage in the Middle East.
No one in the images broadcast on Wednesday could clearly be identified as US military personnel. Many of the images broadcast on Wednesday were more graphic than those previously published, showing what appear to be dead bodies, as well as wounded people and prisoners performing sex acts.
SBS said the photographs of the dead bodies were of people who had died at the prison.
(With Agency Inputs)
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