Report of the Working Group on the use of mercenaries, A/HRC/48/51

Reporting cited here

1. reported
   Superseded · open corrected record

   U.N. experts described the pardons as an affront to justice and said they violated U.S. obligations and contributed to impunity for the underlying conduct.

   Discussion of the four December 2020 pardons and cited expert statement

   Trump erased the sentences of four Blackwater guards convicted over the Nisur Square killings · superseded evidence record

2. reported

   In its July 2, 2021 report, the U.N. Working Group on the use of mercenaries described Trump's 2020 pardons of the four convicted Blackwater contractors as an affront to justice and cited its earlier concern that the pardons violated international law.

   Cover date; paragraphs 4 and 54; footnote 52

   U.N. working group called Trump's Blackwater pardons an affront to justice · U.N. Working Group submitted its assessment on July 2, 2021