‘Correct a black mark in US history’: former prisoners of Abu Ghraib get day in court

Jury trial against military contractor CACI over sadistic, blatant and wanton abuses' comes 20 years after scandal broke

The first trial to contend with the post-9/11 abuse of detainees in US custody begins on Monday, in a case brought by three men who were held in the US-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.

The jury trial, in a federal court in Virginia, comes nearly 20 years to the day that the photographs depicting torture and abuse in the prison were first revealed to the public, prompting an international scandal that came to symbolize the treatment of detainees in the US war on terror".