: Forced nudity, sexual assault, and forcing Muslim detainees to eat pork or drink alcohol. Interrogation Tactics

The Abu Ghraib 18 refers to 18 detainees who were released from the prison in 2004, after being held for extended periods without charge or trial. The release of the detainees was seen as a gesture of goodwill by the US military, and was intended to demonstrate a commitment to reducing the population of detainees held at the prison.

The legacy of Abu Ghraib is not just the photographs. It is the architecture. It is the realization that ordinary people, placed in a concrete box with absolute power, will almost always produce a photograph that shames their nation.