Charles J. Hanley is a journalist and author who reported for the Associated Press (AP) for over 40 years, chiefly as a roving international correspondent. In 2000, he and two AP colleagues won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for their work confirming the U.S. military’s massacre of South Korean refugees at No Gun Ri during the Korean War.
On November 1 2003, Hanley published a report containing testimonies from multiple Iraqis detained in Abu Ghraib prison that the American guards abused, tortured and sometimes killed prisoners. Despite the insistence of brigadier Janis Karpinski that all prisoners were treated humanely, the claims were proven to be true and eleven soldiers were convicted of dereliction of duty and other crimes.