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Group Sues Private Contractors at Abu Ghraib

Today, the Center for Constitional Rights (CCR) filed suit against private contractors involved in the prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib prison.

In light of the abuses at Abu Ghraib, and similar abuses at Guantanamo Bay and Baghram, it has become clear that the Bush administration has a wide spread and systematic disregard for human rights and the Geneva Conventions.
CCR is challenging this policy. CCR just filed suits and actions in the last two weeks:
* Challenging the conditions and the abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay
* Demanding information from the government about its policies with regard to detentions, interrogations and deaths in custody
* CCR is also working with military lawyers to challenge the upcoming military tribunals.

The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) is a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. If you can spare some change, go help them out.

Update: The AP reports on the lawsuit, and repeats some of the ugliest accusations--and they are ugly.

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