Former Iraqi rights minister says abuses continue

PARIS, May 8 (Reuters) - Iraq's former human rights minister Abdul Basset Turki said abuses of Iraqi prisoners had been going on at all U.S. bases since the occupation began, with some taking place as recently as last week.

In an interview with French weekly Le Journal de Dimanche released ahead of publication on Sunday, Turki said he had warned U.S. administrator Paul Bremer of the abuse in November.

The scandal over detainee abuse broke last week with the release of photographs showing the sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib, a U.S.-run jail outside Baghdad.

"The first reports I received concerned the city of Umm Qasr, the detention zone at Baghdad airport, and finally the prison at Abu Ghraib. But there was torture at all the American bases," he told the newspaper.

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