Prisoners riot in southern Iraq

Prisoners at a US-run detention camp in southern Iraq rioted last week, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).

"There was a riot at Camp Bucca on April 1 - an ICRC delegation was there that day on one of its regular prisoner visits and it is now following up the situation," said Christophe Beney, the head of the ICRC's Baghdad delegation.

Earlier, a representative of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr's movement had revealed that some detainees rioted at Camp Bucca after one of them was denied medical treatment.