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FEDERAL Judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled on Friday evening that the US government must release photographs showing abuse of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Judge Hellerstein’s ruling gave the government, which has fought the case for more than a decade, two months to decide whether to appeal.
The American Civil Liberties Union has been seeking to make the pictures public, saying that the pictures “are manifestly important to the ongoing national debate.”
It is unclear how many photographs exist. The government says it has 29 relevant pictures from at least seven different sites but is believed to hold hundreds or thousands more.
The government has long argued that their release could incite attacks on US forces and government personnel abroad.
Rear Admiral Sinclair Harris said in December that Islamic State “would use these photographs to further encourage its supporters and followers to attack US military and government personnel.”
