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Dana Verkourteren

FILE - This artist sketch depicts Salah Al-Ejaili, foreground right with glasses, a former Al-Jazeera journalist, before the U.S. District Court in Alexandria, Va., April 16, 2024. (Dana Verkouteren via AP, File)

RICHMOND, Va. – A federal appeals court was scheduled to hear oral arguments Tuesday about an appeal from a U.S. military contractor ordered to pay $42 million for contributing to the torture and mistreatment of three former detainees at Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison two decades ago.

Reston, Virginia-based CACI appealed last year's civil lawsuit verdict to the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Suhail Al Shimari, Salah Al-Ejaili and Asa’ad Al-Zubae testified at last year's trial that that they were subjected to beatings, sexual abuse, force

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