US EditionGuantanamo detainee paid 'substantial' compensation by UK to settle torture complicity case
The UK settled a legal claim by Abu Zubaydah over MI5 and MI6’s involvement in his CIA torture, with compensation described as substantial but undisclosed.
- The UK government has paid substantial compensation to Abu Zubaydah, with payment under way though the exact amount remains undisclosed for legal reasons.
- Zubaydah's lawsuit alleged MI5 and MI6 passed questions to the CIA despite knowing about his extreme mistreatment, with US Senate and UK Parliament reports highly critical of his treatment.
- Captured in 2002, Zubaydah was held for four years at CIA "black sites" in Lithuania and Poland and was the first man waterboarded 83 times under the CIA's enhanced interrogation programme.
- Prof Helen Duffy urged governments sharing responsibility to secure Zubaydah's release, noting the compensation is significant but insufficient and that he currently cannot access the money, while the Foreign Office declined to comment.
- Four years after his capture, Britain delayed seeking assurances about Abu Zubaydah's treatment, and Dominic Grieve warned `Americans were behaving in a way that should have given us cause for real concern`, raising issues for British intelligence oversight and cooperation.
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UK pays compensation to Gitmo detainee Abu Zubaydah over torture case
Abu Zubaydah, a Guantanamo Bay prisoner who has been detained for almost 20 years without trial and was brutally tortured by the CIA, has received “substantial” compensation from the UK government. MI5 and MI6 had passed questions to the CIA to use during Abu Zubaydah’s interrogations, with full knowledge of his extreme mistreatment, which included […] The post UK pays compensation to Gitmo detainee Abu Zubaydah over torture case appeared first …
U.K. agrees to pay ‘substantial sum’ to settle lawsuit by Guantanamo detainee over torture claims
The British government has agreed to pay a "substantial sum" to settle a lawsuit by a Guantanamo Bay detainee who said U.K. intelligence agencies were complicit in his torture at secret U.S. interrogation sites, his lawyer said Monday.
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