By Daren Butler, ISTANBUL (Reuters) Four Iraqi men are suing U.S. military contractors who they say tortured them while they were detained in Abu Ghraib prison, according to lawsuits being filed at U.S. federal courts on Monday. The lawsuits allege the contractors committed violations of U.S. law, including torture, war crimes and civil conspiracy. The scandal over the treatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib unleashed a wave of global condemnation against the United States when images of abused prisoners surfaced in 2004. The four plaintiffs, all later released without charge, described their experiences to Reuters on Monday at an Istanbul hotel, where they periodically meet their U.S. legal team. They gave accounts of beatings, electric shocks and mock executions. The lawsuits named CACI International Inc, CACI Premier...
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