In other news from Britain, a public inquiry has begun into the 2003 torture of ten Iraqi civilians, one of whom died from beatings by British forces. The slain victim, Iraqi hotel worker Baha Mousa, suffered ninety-three injuries to his body. Mousa was twenty-six and the father of two children. His wife had died just two months earlier of a brain tumor. On Monday, lawyers for Mousa’s family showed footage documenting the first hours of the Iraqis’ imprisonment. The footage shows the prisoners blindfolded as they’re yelled at by British soldiers. Phil Shiner, an attorney for Mousa’s family, called the previously unreleased video “disgraceful.”

Phil Shiner: “This is a disgraceful and, I think, a shocking video account of a snippet of what these men had to endure, but what’s even more disgraceful is the cover up behind it. You’ve known about this for three years, and you weren’t able to show it. I’ve seen it hundreds of times, but I’ve never been able to release it, because I was under a strict undertaking.”

The British government has already paid just under $6 million to settle the case and issued an official apology. But six soldiers were acquitted of any wrongdoing, and one soldier was sentenced to just one year in prison.