Wolfgang Kaleck is a German civil rights attorney. He is also the General Secretary for the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights.
On November 14, 2006, Kaleck sought criminal prosecution charges in German court against a number of United States officials and military personnel in connection with alleged human rights abuses at the prison facilities at Abu Gharib and Guantanamo Bay on behalf of eleven plaintiffs. Approximately 30 human rights activists and organizations participated as co-plaintiffs. Those named in Kaleck's complaint include former United States Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, former Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
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