BAGHDAD — The U.S. military announced Thursday that six Navy guards will face trial for allegedly assaulting prisoners and releasing pepper spray into a cellblock after a disturbance at the main U.S. prison in Iraq.
The charges were in connection with a May 14 incident at Camp Bucca, the biggest American detention facility near the Kuwaiti border, said Navy spokeswoman Cmdr. Jane Campbell.
Trouble started when several guards were attacked by detainees, who spit and threw containers of human waste at them, Campbell said. Two detainees were allegedly beaten and eight others were locked overnight in a cell that was filled with pepper spray and the ventilation was shut off, she said.
Seven other sailors received nonjudicial punishment for failing to report the incidents.
