Human Rights Watch is due to release a report about the atrocities that took place in Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq by U.S. forces which went unpunished by the U.S. legal system.

The report is titled “Iraq: Torture Survivors Await US Redress, Accountability.”

The report says the U.S. govt “has apparently failed to provide compensation or other redress to Iraqis who suffered torture and other abuse two decades after evidence emerged of U.S. forces mistreating detainees at Abu Ghraib and other US-run prisons in Iraq.”

After the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, the US and its coalition allies held about 100,000 Iraqis between 2003 and 2009.

Human Rights Watch and others have documented torture and other ill-treatment by U.S. forces in Iraq.

Survivors of abuse have come forward for years to give their accounts of their treatment but received little recognition from the U.S. government and no redress.

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