CCR’s relentless pursuit of accountability for torture continues this week with a court hearing in our Al Shimari v. CACI case. One of the things CCR has worked on in its multifaceted anti-torture work is holding the private military contractors at Abu Ghraib accountable for their role in the torture of prisoners there. We won the first and so-far only monetary settlement for post-9/11 torture victims, for 72 Iraqis in our Al-Quraishi v. Nakhla case against the Abu Ghraib contractor L-3 Services. Like Al-Quraishi, Al Shimari is a suit against a contractor on behalf of 4 Iraqis who were tortured at Abu Ghraib. CACI has been trying to get the case dismissed since we filed it. In June, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals decided that the case could proceed, overturning the district court and ruling that the case was permissible under the Alien Tort Statute (ATS). Having failed to get the case dismissed on ATS grounds, CACI is now trying to get it dismissed on the grounds that the legality of torture is an unreviewable “political question.” That is the issue in this week’s hearing. Stay tuned for updates! ccrjustice.org/Al-Shimari
Posted on: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 15:40:23 +0000
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