{"id":5126,"date":"2020-12-30T12:17:47","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T12:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/dec\/30\/trumps-blackwater-pardons-an-affront-to-justice-say-un-experts"},"modified":"2020-12-30T12:17:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T12:17:47","slug":"trumps-blackwater-pardons-an-affront-to-justice-say-un-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/30\/trumps-blackwater-pardons-an-affront-to-justice-say-un-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s Blackwater pardons an affront to justice, say\u00a0UN experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rights experts say pardon of four contractors over Iraq killings undermine humanitarian law<\/p><p>Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/23\/trump-pardons-blackwater-contractors-jailed-for-massacre-of-iraq-civilians\">pardon of four American men<\/a> convicted of killing Iraqi civilians while working as contractors in 2007 violated US obligations under international law, United Nations human rights experts have said.<\/p><p>Nicholas Slatten <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2014\/oct\/22\/us-jury-convicts-blackwater-security-guards-iraq\">was convicted<\/a> of first-degree murder and Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard were convicted of voluntary and attempted manslaughter over an incident in which US contractors opened fire in busy traffic in a Baghdad square and killed 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians.<\/p><p> <span>Related: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/dec\/23\/our-blood-is-cheaper-than-water-iraqis-anger-over-trump-pardons\">'Our blood is cheaper than water': anger in Iraq over Trump pardons<\/a> <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/dec\/30\/trumps-blackwater-pardons-an-affront-to-justice-say-un-experts\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2020\/dec\/30\/trumps-blackwater-pardons-an-affront-to-justice-say-un-experts\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rights experts say pardon of four contractors over Iraq killings undermine humanitarian lawDonald Trump\u2019s pardon of four American men convicted of killing Iraqi civilians while working as contractors in 2007 violated US obligations under international &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1330,192,640,1258,1327,111,1315,1329,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5127,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions\/5127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}