New photos obtained by Press TV have revealed alleged sexual harassment and rape of Iraqi prisoners at US-run Abu Ghraib detention center by American soldiers.
The alleged pictures illustrate male American soldiers raping and sexually harassing Iraqi detainees.
Earlier on Thursday, a British newspaper talked about some photos of sexual harassment of Iraqi prisoners by US soldiers.
Major General Antonio Taguba, a retired US general who conducted an inquiry into the abuses at the US prison in Iraq, sent shockwaves around the world.
"These pictures show torture, abuse, rape and every indecency," The Daily Telegraph quoted Taguba as saying without releasing any of the images.
The daily had added that one of the pictures depicted a male American soldier apparently raping a female detainee, while the other showed a male translator raping a male prisoner.
Another photo showed how a female detainee was forced to disrobe and expose her breasts.
There were also photos that show US soldiers sexually assaulting the prisoners with objects like truncheons, wires and phosphorescent tubes.
The Pentagon rejected reports on the existence of such photographs.
US president Barack Obama tried to block the release of some 2000 photographs from prisons in Iraq and Afghanistan, despite his promise to make them available to the public.
Taguba noted that the gruesome nature of the photos is to such extent that he understood why Obama is trying to block them.
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