Our landmark lawsuit Al Shimari v. CACI, a federal lawsuit filed in 2008 and brought on behalf of three Iraqi torture victims, has finally gone to trial.
In March 2003, the United States unlawfully invaded Iraq using a false claim that Iraq had developed “weapons of mass destruction” to justify the full-scale invasion. The incalculable human toll of the Iraq war continues to this day.
The case was brought against U.S.-based government contractor CACI Premier Technology, Inc. on behalf of Suhail Najim Abdullah Al Shimari, Salah Hasan Nusaif Al-Ejaili, and Asa'ad Hamza Hanfoosh Zuba'e.
The last remaining lawsuit of its kind, Al Shimari v. CACI overcame more than 20 attempts by CACI to have it dismissed and five trips to the court of appeals to make it to trial. This was the first time that victims of the United States’ post-9/11 torture testified in a U.S. courtroom.
“Every fair person, every person who seeks truth, every person who calls for peace, must push towards giving justice to those people and enacting laws that would limit the subjection of people to torture whether in Iraq or anywhere else in the world,” Salah Al-Ejaili.
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