Thailand denies US news report of a secret CIA prison

Thailand today denied a news report that it allowed the United States to set up a secret prison where an al-Qaida suspect was badly mistreated during interrogations.

ABC News reported that Thailand was the first country in which a prison was set up by the CIA to house and interrogate terrorist suspects.

It was established in 2002 following the capture in Pakistan of Abu Zabayda, who was whisked to a vacant warehouse on an air base in Thailand, ABC said.