Australia's "Abu Ghraib"-Like Torture of Jailed Children Captured in "Chilling" TV Footage

Footage from an ABC investigation revealed juvenile detention center guards in Australia's Northern Territory shackling, hooding, taunting, and teargassing detained children—as well as leaving them in solitary confinement for extended periods of time.

Such abuse of children "may amount to torture by the government responsible for their care."

—UNICEF AustraliaThe haunting footage that aired Monday on the investigative program "Four Corners" provoked comparisons to the U.S. military's illegal torture of detainees in Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay, scandalizing human rights observers in Australia and worldwide.  Read more.