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Abu Ghraib torture survivors win US civil case, $42m damages

Photos of detainee mistreatment at the US-run Abu Ghraib facility in Iraq shocked the world in 2004 [Ali Abbas/EPA]

A United States defence contractor must pay $42m to three Iraqi men who were tortured at Abu Ghraib prison, a US federal jury has ruled.

The ruling on Tuesday ends a 15-year legal battle over the role of Virginia-based contractor CACI, whose civilian employees worked at the facility, in acts of torture that took place there.

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