A REPORT due this week on the treatment of prisoners at Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, contains damning evidence of abuses, according to a human rights lawyer.

The document, based on the testimony of former prisoners including three Britons released in May, will highlight the techniques used to wear down and disorient prisoners suspected of supporting Al-Qaeda.

It is set to spark a row similar to that caused when evidence of prisoner abuse by American troops in Abu Ghraib jail, Baghdad, emerged earlier this year.

“I am ashamed to say evidence will come to light that conditions in Guantanamo Bay are in many ways very similar to Abu Ghraib,” said Clive Stafford-Smith, the lawyer who acted for the Britons — Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal and Rhuhel Ahmed, all from Tipton, West Midlands — during their time at Guantanamo.

Stafford-Smith, who specialises in defending death row prisoners, is touring the Gulf to meet relatives of Arab prisoners at Guantanamo.

One source claims that the report, to be published on Wednesday, says many prisoners were denied even basics such as underwear.

Last Friday American authorities began hearings to determine whether some of the 600 prisoners at Guantanamo should be released.

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