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Human Rights Violations In The Hooded Man

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During the 2000s it was a time of war and tension for the American public and the government . America was seen as a glorious nation that was fighting back against the terrorists to try and better the world buSgt.t, Ivan Frederick decided to expose the American government to the public. Showing them the truth of what America was really doing overseas to thIraqiaq nationSgt.t, Ivan Frederick helped comment on the idea of violating human rights by using the photograph The Hooded Man. The background of the 2000s helps one understand the violations of human rights during this time. Gale Onlinstates:es “Bush's presidency faced an early crisis, with the September 11 attacks (9/11), in which terrorists hijacked planes and crashed two of them into …show more content…

Frederick had a normal life but he worked in a place of violence "Sergeant Frederick made $26,500 a year, a family member... Chip Frederick, as he is known, was a model officer. When he ran one of the segregation units for unruly inmates." This proves Sergeant Fredrick before he took the photo of the "The Hooded Man" he worked in a place with human rights violations, all the time so that must have inspired him to take the photo he did in 2003. Frederick didn’t have much background on working with art "Never in Sergeant Frederick's six years at the medium-security institution, the Stevenses said, did his behavior hint that he was capable of the kind of abuse with which he is charged" This is important to understand Sergeant Frederick chip he worked at a prison for six years, so he saw human rights violations and abuses every day while he worked their he was also part of that abuse but that must have inspired him to take the photo he did because he realized what they were doing in Iraq was wrong. Ivan Frederick's career was damaged because he took the photo of “The Hooded Man” "A military court sentenced Staff Sgt. Ivan L. Frederick II on Thursday To eight years in prison for abusing Iraqi prisoners last year in the grim chambers of Abu Ghraib... The judge, Col. James A. Pohl," This is significant because after the pictures were taken and leaked all over Frederick's career was ruined, and he was …show more content…

The photo Ivan Frederick took caused there to be an increase in events like “A military court sentenced Staff Sgt. Ivan L. Frederick II on Thursday to eight years in prison for abusing an Iraqi… last year in the grim chambers of Abu Ghraib.” The photo went all the way to court because of the photos he took and if he didn't ever take those photos people would have kept being abused and hurt while nobody noticed. Gale online states “Sergeant Frederick pleaded guilty to eight counts of abusing detainees at…, 15 miles west oBaghdadd, in October and November of 2003. In court, he described in graphic detail how he had forced Arab prisoners to masturbate, punched a hooded prisoner and attached wires to another standing on a flimsy box who was made to believe he would be electrocuted if he fell off…” The main message he is trying to say is don't do this. It's wrong what we did to those people and how we treated them. He realized his mistake that he made and that is why he pleaded guilty and told the world what he did and what several other people did to violate their human rights. The photo he took would end up making huge impacts in the future like “the resistance and increased violence. Although a direct cause and effect relation was impossible to prove, the Abu Ghraib scandal seemed to have provoked the insurgency and significantly endangered coalition troops” This proves because

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