U.S. Ordered to Give Rights Groups Torture Papers.
/The U.S. government has less than two weeks to
start giving civil rights groups documents about the torture of
prisoners held by U.S. forces at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison and
other facilities, a federal judge ordered on Thursday. U.S.
District Judge Alvin Hellerstein expressed impatience with the
government and said prosecutors must start handing over certain
papers identified by the American Civil Liberties Union by Aug.
23 unless they can show the documents cannot be found or they are
subject to certain exemptions. The ACLU and other civil rights groups
sued the U.S. government in June for what they said was the
illegal withholding of records about American military abuse
of prisoners held in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay and other locations. [more 
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