The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said yesterday the latest images of abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison showed clear violations of international humanitarian law.

An Australian television station broadcast what it said were previously unpublished images of abuse of Iraqi prisoners at the jail, fuelling Arab anger against the US. ?The type of treatment in these images very clearly violates the rules of international humanitarian law,? ICRC spokeswoman Dorothea Krimitsas.

The Special Broadcasting Service?s ?Dateline? current affairs programme said the images were recorded at the same time as the now-infamous pictures of US soldiers abusing Abu Ghraib detainees which sparked international outrage in 2004. The latest grainy, photographs and video images show prisoners, some bleeding or hooded, bound to beds and doors, with a smiling American guard beside them. They include two naked men handcuffed together, a pile of five naked detainees photographed from the rear, and a dog straining at a leash close to the face of a crouching man wearing an orange jumpsuit.