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Guantanamo detainee demands release amid allegations of torture after 19 years behind bars
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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