‘Correct a black mark in US history’: former prisoners of Abu Ghraib get day in court
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Jury trial against military contractor CACI over ‘sadistic, blatant and wanton abuses’ comes 20 years after scandal brokeThe first trial to contend with the post-9/11 abuse of detainees in US custody begins on Monday, in a case brought by three men who were held in the US-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.The jury trial, in a federal court in Virginia, comes nearly 20 years to the day that the photographs depicting torture and abuse in the prison were first revealed to the public, prompting an...

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