"A soldier hit me for no reason," said Muhammad al-Qatrany, 22, who was interviewed on Thursday by an Amnesty researcher on the front porch of the hotel. "I didn't have a weapon. I was a civilian. Why did he hit me?"
Amnesty also criticized the US military for not allowing it access to the Umm Qasr detention facility, which once housed as many as 6,000 detainees but now holds only about 500. Inmates are given US$5 and some food and other supplies upon release.
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