Torture and humiliating treatment were widely practiced in the interrogation wing of Abu Ghraib. Forced nudity was apparently a routine measure, in contravention of the Geneva Conventions. The death of a detainee in November 2003 during an interrogation by two CIA agents was described by a pathologist as homicide and is now the subject of a Justice Department investigation. Investigations are also underway into the death of an Iraqi general who suffered “asphyxia due to smothering and chest compression” at a U.S. military base near al-Quaim in western Iraq in November 2003 and the death of another Iraqi in January 2004 at a military base near al-Asad. There are dozens of other detention and holding facilities around the country.