Human Rights Watch has obtained an Army report that proves two Afghan prisoners died in U.S. custody in December 2002 after being beaten and tortured. According to the Army’s own report, the Afghan prisoners were chained to the ceiling and repeatedly kicked and beaten by U.S. soldiers. One soldier, Private First Class Willie Brand, was charged with manslaughter in a closed hearing last month. Brand acknowledged striking one prisoner 37 times. He was also accused of having maimed and killed him over a five-day period by “destroying his leg muscle tissue with repeated unlawful knee strikes.” The attacks on the prisoner were so severe that the Army reported “even if he had survived, both legs would have had to be amputated.” The killings took place three months before the Iraq invasion.