Killing of Manadel al-Jamadi

Manadel al-Jamadi (Arabic: مناضل الجمادي) was an Iraqi national who was killed by being suspended by his wrists with his hands cuffed behind his back, a position condemned by human rights groups as torture, while he was in United States custody during a Central Intelligence Agency interrogation at Abu Ghraib prison on November 4, 2003. A military autopsy by the United States Army found al-Jamadi's death a homicide. In 2011, United States Attorney General Eric Holder said that he had opened a full criminal investigation into al-Jamadi's death. In August 2012, Holder announced that no criminal charges would be brought.

Al-Jamadi had been a suspect in a bomb attack that killed 34 people, including one U.S. soldier, and left more than 200 wounded in a Baghdad Red Cross facility. His name became known in 2004 when the Abu Ghraib scandal made headlines; his corpse packed in ice was the background for widely reprinted photographs of U.S. Army specialists Sabrina Harman and Charles Graner each offering a "thumbs-up" gesture.