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CACI International Inc. "CACI" , a US military defense contractor, has filed suit against former detainees of Abu Ghraib seeking legal expenses after a group of four plaintiffs filed lawsuits against CACI in...

A military contractor that was accused in a lawsuit by former detainees of the Abu Ghraib prison of conspiring to torture detainees has paid $5.28 million to detainees held at the prison and other US detention...

Marjorie Cohn, Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Tung Yin, Lewis & Clark Law School

A 14-judge panel for the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled 12-2 Friday that the earlier dismissal of lawsuits against two Abu Ghraib contractors on the...

The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday dismissed two cases filed by former Iraqi detainees who claimed they had been tortured by civilian contractors at the Abu Ghraib prison near...

The convicted ringleader of abuses committed at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad was released Saturday after serving more than six-and-a-half years of his 10-year sentence. Army Spc. Charles Graner , who was being held...

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that all instances of torture must be investigated as violations of US and international law and a failure to do so will allow impunity for those who authorized...

Australia played a larger role than previously thought in the abuses of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, according to Australia Defense Force (ADF) documents obtained by the Public Interest Advocacy Centre...

The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday initiated a grand jury investigation into the torture and death of a detainee at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. Manadel Al-Jamadi was captured by...