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16 Apr 2024, 7:25 am by Associated Press
A former detainee at the Abu Ghraib prison described to jurors the type of abuse that is reminiscent of the scandal that erupted there 20 years ago. [read post]
15 Apr 2024, 4:55 am by Beatrice Yahia
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1 Apr 2024, 4:48 pm by lennyesq
On June 30th, 2008, four years after images of torture at Abu Ghraib horrified people all over the world, a group of victims filed suit against CACI, the Virginia-based private security company hired by the U.S. government to conduct interrogations at the prison. [read post]
25 Apr 2023, 6:05 am by Yumna Rizvi
  It’s commonly known that religious beliefs and cultural norms were weaponized against Muslim men in Abu Ghraib, Bagram, and Guantanamo. [read post]
13 Mar 2023, 7:21 am by Tom Smith
The photograph that defined the war, every bit as paradigmatic as the man standing in front of the tank in Tiananmen Square in 1989, was that of Ali Shallal al Qaisi at Abu Ghraib prison, his head covered with a black hood, his outstretched hands attached to electrodes. [read post]
13 Oct 2022, 6:05 am by Joseph Margulies
Revolting images from Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison were still fresh. [read post]
8 Sep 2022, 10:51 am by Mills & Mills LLP
Then he spoke about the right to be free from torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading punishment or treatment, with the examples of Iraqi prisoners’ mistreatment at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. [read post]
25 Aug 2022, 7:40 pm by Jacob Katz Cogan
Here's the abstract:When a leader orders a subordinate to commit a crime—to kill anything that moves, as at My Lai; to extract information no matter what it takes, as at Abu Ghraib; to execute prisoners of war, as at Biscari—how should the law and a society respond? [read post]
16 Jul 2022, 7:23 pm
. 's response to the situation in Abu Ghraib prison earlier in the century (see here). [read post]
7 Sep 2021, 1:59 pm by Jacob Schulz
  There’s another problem: six of the 20 defendants won’t make it to court on account of their being dead, missing or stuck in a Turkish prison. [read post]
29 Jun 2021, 8:57 am by Robert Chesney, Steve Vladeck
 in a case involving torture claims against a contractor associated with the Abu Ghraib prison The Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces ruling in Begani concerning court-martial jurisdiction over former servicemembers Sentencing for a US translator who became a spy for Hezbollah, providing classified information including the identity of human sources linked to the attack that killed Iran’s Suleimani Sentencing for a US person convicted of teaching… [read post]
28 Jun 2021, 11:50 am by Amy Howe
ShareThe Supreme Court said Monday it will not take up a dispute over whether transgender students must be allowed to use restrooms that match their gender identities. [read post]
1 Dec 2020, 4:27 pm by INFORRM
I will cite only one other egregious example to add to the Flood case; that of Colonel Campbell-James, who was wrongly accused by the Guardian of being involved in the appalling abuse of Iraqi prisoners in the Abu Ghraib jail. [read post]
6 Apr 2020, 5:00 am by Malcolm Jorgensen
Security Council Resolution 1487 (granting effective immunity from ICC prosecution for American peacekeepers) following revelations of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. [read post]
27 Jan 2020, 8:33 am by Amy Howe
The justices called for the views of the federal government in CACI Premier Technology v. al Shimari, a case brought against CACI, a government contractor that provided civilian interrogators at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, by Iraqi citizens who allege that they were abused by CACI employees while detained there. [read post]
13 Dec 2019, 10:08 am by Noor Zafar
There was systemic abuse of prisoners by the military and the CIA in Afghanistan and at Abu Ghraib. [read post]
26 Nov 2019, 8:53 am by Zalkind Duncan & Bernstein LLP
As many legislators have noted, without a public interest exception important images – like those depicting torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib or related to elected leaders’ sexual misconduct – might not be shared. [read post]
12 Nov 2019, 3:30 am by Robert Gordon
Law’s Wars deals with detention of suspected terrorists at the Iraqi prison of Abu Ghraib and at Guantanamo Bay, interrogation, electronic surveillance, and law of war on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan. [read post]
31 Aug 2019, 6:22 am by Hadley Baker
CACI allowing prisoners detained at Abu Ghraib to move forward with their lawsuit alleging abuse at the prison. [read post]
27 Aug 2019, 1:10 pm by Jacob Schulz
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit which allows former Abu Ghraib detainees to sue military contractors for abuse suffered while at the Iraqi prison. [read post]