US interrogates detainees in Yemen prisons rife with torture

Hundreds of men swept up in the hunt for al-Qaeda militants have disappeared into a secret network of prisons in southern Yemen where abuse is routine and torture extreme — including the “grill,” in which the victim is tied to a spit like a roast and spun in a circle of fire, an Associated Press investigation has found.

This is complicity in #warcrimes : #USA interrogates detainees in #Yemen jails where #UAE forces #torture detainees https://t.co/q8UHbHEGXV pic.twitter.com/ixrmmXq93b

— Donatella Rovera (@DRovera) June 22, 2017

Senior American defense officials acknowledges that US forces have been involved in interrogations of detainees in Yemen but denied any participation in or knowledge of human rights abuses. Interrogating detainees who have been abused could violate international law, which prohibits complicity in torture.

— AP