[Spotsy]

Long Cut . . . soliciting your comments . . .

Isn't the publication and airing of the photographs by news outlets (especially pictures clearly showing prisoners' faces) a violation of the Geneva Convention?

I thought the rules and standards apply to the nation as a whole - whether its govt and military personnel, or journalists and other civilians.

[Long Cut]

It's kind of a "grey legal area", at least to my reading of it.

Photos of prisoners are not to be shown for the purposes of humiliation of such prisoners (paraphrasing here), but I don't know if the media in this case can be said to be doing that.

For one, they are not State-run, and they do not publish the photos at the behest of the government for humiliation purposes.

For another, their reasons (as they will surely claim) were to expose and halt the abuse, and ensure the punishment of those responsible (we'll leave out, for now, if such publication could actually HURT the criminal case).