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The control tower is seen through the razor wire inside the Camp VI detention facility in Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba
GUANTANAMO BAY prisoner Abu Zubaydah is to file a complaint with the United Nations alleging torture by his US captors during his 19-year stay behind bars, his lawyers said today.
The 50-year-old Saudi-born Palestinian was detained in Pakistan in March 2002 on suspicion of being a senior member of al-Qaida who helped plan the 9/11 attacks.
He has never been charged and faces being held indefinitely. US officials have since admitted that he was neither a member of al-Qaida or an important figure among outlawed groups.
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Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
A judge in a German court ruled that the ban activity imposed on renowned Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah was unlawful, reports LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI