The three prisoners of “Abu Ghraib” received 42 million dollars in compensation from the United States
report Mehr News Agency, according to France 24, after 16 years, a jury of the American court on Tuesday sentenced a contractor company of the American Ministry of Defense to pay 42 million dollars as compensation to three Iraqi men. that in the notorious prison “Abu Ghraib” had been tortured and harassed by the American forces.
This news was announced by the lawyers of these three Iraqi men. These three Iraqi men are Sohail al-Shimari, Salah al-Ajili and Asad al-Zubieh, who were tortured by the American soldiers of the CACI Premier Technology contractor company in Abu Ghraib prison in 2003 and 2004.
The complaint filed by these three Iraqi men against this company was filed by the US Department of Defense in 2008 in the city of Arlington, Virginia, but due to legal disputes and the continuous efforts of the American company. It took 16 years to close this case.
This was the first time in the last 20 years that an American court examines the complaint case of Abu Ghraib prison prisoners; The persecution of Abu Ghraib prison was in the headlines of the world news after that, when pictures of the torture of the prisoners were published.
Abu Ghraib prison, 32 kilometers west of Baghdad, was controlled by American forces and other coalition forces with the support of the Iraqi government from 2003 to August 2006. The Abu Ghraib complex of facilities, in addition to the detention and detention of suspects and convicts, was also used as a military base and the location of US-led coalition forces.
In April 2004, with the publication of pictures of Abu Ghraib prison in the CBS television program Sixty Minutes, quoted by the New Yorker magazine, written by Seymour Hersh, about the torture and abuse of prisoners and Extrajudicial killings by American soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison, this issue received international attention.
The CACI company announced by publishing a statement that most of what is said as the abuse of Abu Ghraib prisoners was done with the approval and approval of Donald Rumsfeld, the then US Secretary of Defense. And it was included in the rules and procedures of interaction of military commanders in prison.
