New accounts of torture have beenthrown up in the debate over whether the Bush Administration should be held to account over its detention policies.

Torture allegations have surfaced from a secret document whereby detainees allege they were held by the CIA at secret locations outside the United States.

Last week, The New York Review of Books published excerpts of an International Committee of the Red Cross report that had not been made public.

Allegations were made to the ICRC after the men were transferred to Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba in 2006.

One of the new allegations is that the detainees were kept naked in very small ultra-cold cells for months at a time.

Detainees say they were shackled in place and kept constantly awake, with water being sprayed onto their bodies.

The ICRC report says that detainees were subjected to sleep deprivation, beatings and suffocation with water, and were repeatedly thrown against a wall.

The neutral, Swiss-based ICRC has said it regrets the report was made public because it was confidential.

The ICRC is responsible for making sure countries comply with the Geneva Conventions.

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