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. [
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