Lifting the Hood (2005)

Name: Lifting the Hood
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2005-11-14
Duration: 25 min

English, Arabic 25m

Documentary

Release Date 14 Nov 2005

About Lifting the Hood Movie

Lifting the Hood (2005) is a Movie in the Documentary genre, available in English, Arabic. "They stretched my hands in this position and attached the wires to them", states Haj Ali. "It felt like my eyes were popping out. I couldn't stand it." He spent three months being physically and psychologically tortured at Abu Ghraib. Interrogators wanted him to use his knowledge as a community leader to inform on other people. "They said 'give us the name of anyone you hate and we'll see it as co-operation and help you.'" In a nearby cell, army general Abu Maan was also being interrogated. "They stripped me and took photos of me in degrading positions", he recalls.