In the first successful lawsuit against torture, an US defence contractor, Engility Holdings Inc, whose subsidiary body L-3 Services Inc. was accused in the torture of prisoners held at Abu Ghraib prison, has paid $5.28 million to the victims.
Another contractor, CACI is believed to be going to trial this summer over similiar allegations.
The lawsuit, filed in Maryland over four years ago, accused L-3 services of having “permitted scores of its employees to participate in torturing and abusing prisoners over an extended period of time throughout Iraq" and having “wilfully failed to report L-3 employees’ repeated assaults and other criminal conduct by its employees to the United States or Iraq authorities."
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