Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern
Trump Pardons Blackwater Guards Convicted of Killing Iraqi Civilians at Nisour Square (2020)
Trump pardoned four Blackwater guards whom US courts had convicted of killing Iraqi civilians, including a 9-year-old boy, in Baghdad in 2007. The UN human rights office said the pardons 'contribute to impunity'; a survivor who testified at trial said he was 'really shocked.'