11 detainees say they gave false confessions to halt abuse

Tuesday, February 8, 2005

Nearly a dozen detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp contend they were wrongly imprisoned after repeated abuse by U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan, including beatings with chains, electric shock and sodomy, their attorney said Monday.

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