British Government Pays Compensation for Iraq "Torture"

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A line has been drawn under one of the most notorious episodes of Britain's involvement in Iraq when the government agreed to pay nearly 3 million pounds to "torture" victims.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed on Thursday, July 10, that it had agreed to pay 2.83 million pounds (3.56 million euros, $5.6 million) in compensation to the relatives of Baha Mousa, who died from being beaten while in British detention in Basra in September, 2003, and nine other men who suffered mistreatment by soldiers.

The pay-out was agreed during two days of "intensive negotiations" between the group and the Ministry of Defence in London, said the law firm Leigh Day & Co.