SF voices concern at census firm’s links to Iraq prison

SINN FÉIN last night expressed alarm that a British firm contracted to help process census information has links with Iraq’s notorious Abu Ghraib prison.

London-based CACI-UK is a subsidiary of US contractor CACI International, which provided interrogators who worked at Abu Ghraib prison. Sinn Féin Foreign Affairs spokesperson Pádraig MacLochlainn expressed “serious concern” at the connection.

“The revelation that CACI-UK has been awarded a €6 million contract to work on the production and compilation of the 2011 census is deeply worrying. In 2004, three CACI-International employees who worked as interrogators at Abu Ghraib were named in a US military report into prisoner abuse in Iraq,” he said.