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November 2, 2020

World

Arrested, Tortured, Imprisoned: The U.S. Contractors Abandoned in Kuwait

Dozens of military contractors, most of them Black, have been jailed in the emirate — some on trumped-up drug charges. Why has the American government failed to help them?

Doug Bock Clark New York Times Magazine Oct 2020 35min Permalink