A Bagdhad family hold a party for their teenaged son.
But this is not a party to say Happy Birthday or Well Done in your Exams. This party is to celebrate the release of a seventeen year old from the world's most notorious prison; Abu Ghraib.
He's still too scared to be identified so we'll just call him Mohamed. He says he spent five and a half months in Abu Ghraib before being released without charge. Mohamed claims he was abused during interrogations there many times up until mid July, months after the prisoner abuse scandal became public.
SOT Mohamed
There's torture everywhere. They handcuff you and put a sack on your head during interrogations. Then they beat you with the butt of their guns or a stick. They beat you on your head, shoulder and legs. And if you fall down, they pull you like a garbage bag and drag you away.
TRACK
The US military says there have been no new allegations of abuse since the start of January. Yet everything Mohamed says dates from a month later.
SOT
The Americans were laughing again and beating me with iron sticks while the music was playing. They beat me and kicked me around while I was blind-folded. I didn't know who they were. I can't understand why they were laughing and singing while beating us and having fun while torturing us. I still don't understand why did they do that?
TRACK
Over the past few weeks Channel Four News has gathered testimony from children who say they were incarcerated and abused at Abu Ghraib.
Sergeant Samuel Provance worked for US Military Intelligence in the prison. He came across a sixteen year old prisoner who had been used in his father's interrogation - against army rules. He escorted the boy from the interrogation centre afterwards.
PROVANCE SOT
'He had the skinniest arms I've ever seen on a person. And he was literally shaking head to toe. His wrists were so small we couldn't even put handcuffs on them. They threw water over him and put him in the back of a Humvee and presented him to his father. They were trying all these other interrogation techniques and he would not talk. But after seeing his son in that state that's what broke him, it broke his heart. And crying and saying he would tell them whatever they wanted after that.
TRACK
Samuel Provance also gave evidence to the Army's own investigation into prisoner abuse. After speaking publicly on the issue he's had his security clearance revoked.
In the backstreets of Baghdad we found still more RECENT testimony that children were being incarcerated in Abu Ghraib. The Al Ubaydi family's SIXTEEN year old boy Lowai is STILL THERE. They say he was detained in a security sweep following an explosion in the city 6 months ago.
SOT Mother
When the Americans arrested him he was trying to get out of the area where the explosion happened. They beat him and shot him in the leg. He was wounded but had to stay lying on the river edge for two hours while flies gathered around him but no body helped him.
SOT Father
They shouldn't put children in Abu Ghraib. That's a big mistake. Is this the humanitarian ideals Americans are talking about? They claim they're here for humanity, democracy and freedom but they put our kid in Abu Ghraib. That's a place for adults.
TRACK
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child says no child should be arbitrarily detained, subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment. Two countries are not signed up to the convention; Somalia and the United States. Seventeen year old Mohamed was arrested in a night raid after a tip off saying he was a resistance fighter - Human Rights Watch says informers are paid for tip offs whether or not they later turn out to be true - Mohamed says he was initially taken to a police station.
SOT MOHAMED
One of them brought a cable and asked me, "Do you know what this is?" He put the cable on my hand and told me "I show you what this is." He then gave me electric shock on my hands and my legs. He said "What do you say now?" I said, "I still don't know anything." And then he started to beat me with the butt of his machine gun and an iron stick. My hand was folded from behind and they put a sack on my head. And then they threw me in the mud.
TRACK
In response to all these allegations the US military told us '...leadership involvement and other changes in the camp have ensured that the conditions you describe are extremely unlikely to have occurred. There is obviously nothing we can do to rectify or investigate unsubstantiated claims that have not been reported to the Multi-National Force. We are doing what's right by all the detainees we are responsible for.'
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH SOT
If indeed your statements are true that you have put in checks and balances to ensure that this never happens again then what's the problem about accepting the idea of public scrutiny of allowing Humane rights organisations which publish the results of their research to actually go in and verify, that it actually could be in the interest of the coalition forces to have this kind of monitoring. Otherwise the statements that they make about improvments remain worthless.
TRACK
At least for now Loai's mother, Hanna, knows where he is. Although to visit him requires a day of queuing for an appointment, then another day of travelling to and from the prison. And, because 16 year old Lowai was the family's main breadwinner, Hanna usually has to sell some food ration cards to pay the fare.
HANNA SOT
They let us visit my son once a week. Before the scandal you couldn't visit them once a month or even once every three months but its better these days now you can see them once a week.
TRACK
Our camera is not allowed to accompany her to the prison. Hanna does not have long with her son, but she is allowed to have her photograph taken with him. And he tells her grim new details about his treatment.
HANNA SOT
The prisoners are still afraid of Americans and are in a disastrous situation.The Americans torture them and beat them. My son told me that they release dogs on them to scare. My son was frustrated and stressed out. When the Americans took a photo of us he was looking at them as if he wanted to eat them.
TRACK
UNICEF says its been given limited information about children in custody in Iraq and its concerned about their categorization as internees. It says unjust detentions are a leading cause for the mounting anger and potential radicalisation of the young people of Iraq. Months after the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuses were exposed and supposedly ended, many young people here believe those who invaded their country in the name of freedom are still a long way from occupying the moral high ground.
But this is not a party to say Happy Birthday or Well Done in your Exams. This party is to celebrate the release of a seventeen year old from the world's most notorious prison; Abu Ghraib.
He's still too scared to be identified so we'll just call him Mohamed. He says he spent five and a half months in Abu Ghraib before being released without charge. Mohamed claims he was abused during interrogations there many times up until mid July, months after the prisoner abuse scandal became public.
SOT Mohamed
There's torture everywhere. They handcuff you and put a sack on your head during interrogations. Then they beat you with the butt of their guns or a stick. They beat you on your head, shoulder and legs. And if you fall down, they pull you like a garbage bag and drag you away.
TRACK
The US military says there have been no new allegations of abuse since the start of January. Yet everything Mohamed says dates from a month later.
SOT
The Americans were laughing again and beating me with iron sticks while the music was playing. They beat me and kicked me around while I was blind-folded. I didn't know who they were. I can't understand why they were laughing and singing while beating us and having fun while torturing us. I still don't understand why did they do that?
TRACK
Over the past few weeks Channel Four News has gathered testimony from children who say they were incarcerated and abused at Abu Ghraib.
Sergeant Samuel Provance worked for US Military Intelligence in the prison. He came across a sixteen year old prisoner who had been used in his father's interrogation - against army rules. He escorted the boy from the interrogation centre afterwards.
PROVANCE SOT
'He had the skinniest arms I've ever seen on a person. And he was literally shaking head to toe. His wrists were so small we couldn't even put handcuffs on them. They threw water over him and put him in the back of a Humvee and presented him to his father. They were trying all these other interrogation techniques and he would not talk. But after seeing his son in that state that's what broke him, it broke his heart. And crying and saying he would tell them whatever they wanted after that.
TRACK
Samuel Provance also gave evidence to the Army's own investigation into prisoner abuse. After speaking publicly on the issue he's had his security clearance revoked.
In the backstreets of Baghdad we found still more RECENT testimony that children were being incarcerated in Abu Ghraib. The Al Ubaydi family's SIXTEEN year old boy Lowai is STILL THERE. They say he was detained in a security sweep following an explosion in the city 6 months ago.
SOT Mother
When the Americans arrested him he was trying to get out of the area where the explosion happened. They beat him and shot him in the leg. He was wounded but had to stay lying on the river edge for two hours while flies gathered around him but no body helped him.
SOT Father
They shouldn't put children in Abu Ghraib. That's a big mistake. Is this the humanitarian ideals Americans are talking about? They claim they're here for humanity, democracy and freedom but they put our kid in Abu Ghraib. That's a place for adults.
TRACK
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child says no child should be arbitrarily detained, subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment. Two countries are not signed up to the convention; Somalia and the United States. Seventeen year old Mohamed was arrested in a night raid after a tip off saying he was a resistance fighter - Human Rights Watch says informers are paid for tip offs whether or not they later turn out to be true - Mohamed says he was initially taken to a police station.
SOT MOHAMED
One of them brought a cable and asked me, "Do you know what this is?" He put the cable on my hand and told me "I show you what this is." He then gave me electric shock on my hands and my legs. He said "What do you say now?" I said, "I still don't know anything." And then he started to beat me with the butt of his machine gun and an iron stick. My hand was folded from behind and they put a sack on my head. And then they threw me in the mud.
TRACK
In response to all these allegations the US military told us '...leadership involvement and other changes in the camp have ensured that the conditions you describe are extremely unlikely to have occurred. There is obviously nothing we can do to rectify or investigate unsubstantiated claims that have not been reported to the Multi-National Force. We are doing what's right by all the detainees we are responsible for.'
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH SOT
If indeed your statements are true that you have put in checks and balances to ensure that this never happens again then what's the problem about accepting the idea of public scrutiny of allowing Humane rights organisations which publish the results of their research to actually go in and verify, that it actually could be in the interest of the coalition forces to have this kind of monitoring. Otherwise the statements that they make about improvments remain worthless.
TRACK
At least for now Loai's mother, Hanna, knows where he is. Although to visit him requires a day of queuing for an appointment, then another day of travelling to and from the prison. And, because 16 year old Lowai was the family's main breadwinner, Hanna usually has to sell some food ration cards to pay the fare.
HANNA SOT
They let us visit my son once a week. Before the scandal you couldn't visit them once a month or even once every three months but its better these days now you can see them once a week.
TRACK
Our camera is not allowed to accompany her to the prison. Hanna does not have long with her son, but she is allowed to have her photograph taken with him. And he tells her grim new details about his treatment.
HANNA SOT
The prisoners are still afraid of Americans and are in a disastrous situation.The Americans torture them and beat them. My son told me that they release dogs on them to scare. My son was frustrated and stressed out. When the Americans took a photo of us he was looking at them as if he wanted to eat them.
TRACK
UNICEF says its been given limited information about children in custody in Iraq and its concerned about their categorization as internees. It says unjust detentions are a leading cause for the mounting anger and potential radicalisation of the young people of Iraq. Months after the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuses were exposed and supposedly ended, many young people here believe those who invaded their country in the name of freedom are still a long way from occupying the moral high ground.