The trial in Germany of British soldiers accused of abusing Iraqi prisoners has stopped at the request of the defence, according to the British government.
"The trial has been halted because of the defence application," Prime Minister Tony Blair's spokesman told reporters.
Photos published this week - some including the soldiers, - appeared to show naked detainees being forced to simulate anal and other sex acts.
Mr Blair, a staunch advocate of the US-led Iraq invasion to oust Saddam Hussein, told parliament yesterday he found the pictures "shocking and appalling."
The case echoes the scandal involving US soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq that severely tarnished Washington's image in the Arab world and elsewhere.
"While we express in a unified way our disgust at those pictures, I hope that we do not allow that to tarnish the good name, fully deserved, of our British armed forces," Mr Blair said.
Photos plastered across British newspapers showed an Iraqi man dangling from a forklift truck and a soldier with his foot raised over a bound Iraqi lying in a puddle of water.
A US military court last weekend sentenced Charles Graner, the alleged ringleader at Abu Ghraib, to 10 years in prison.