The United States should protect people who use classified or other sensitive government information to expose what appear to be serious human rights violations and other government wrongdoing, Human Rights Watch said in a statement released today.

We, the undersigned organizations, are writing to urge the United States government to allow Taha Yaseen Arraq Rashid, Asa’ad Hamza Hanfoosh Al-Zuba’e and Suhail Najim Abdullah Al Shimari to travel from Iraq to the United States to participate in a lawsuit they brought against a private military contractor, CACI Premier Technology, Inc., alleging torture and other abuse at Abu Ghraib.