Abu Ghraib: Iraqi victims’ case against US contractor ends in mistrial
Al JazeeraThree survivors sued the company CACI in civil court for abuses committed at the hands of US soldiers and contractors inside the prison. The trial focused on the human rights abuses committed at the prison following the US’s invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq. At question in the Virginia trial was whether civilian interrogators, supplied to the US Army by the Virginia-based contractor CACI, conspired with soldiers to abuse detainees as a means of “softening them up” for questioning. An image of a hooded prisoner holding electrical wires and standing on a box soon became emblematic of what rights groups have characterised as wide-scale abuses committed by US military personnel and private contractors following the 2003 Iraq invasion. In September, Human Rights Watch said the US has “apparently failed to provide compensation or other redress to Iraqis who suffered torture and other abuse by US forces at Abu Ghraib and other US-run prisons in Iraq two decades ago”.
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