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Trump inherits the Guantánamo prison, complete with 4 ‘forever prisoners’

President Joe Biden’s record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is decidedly mixed. He succeeded in reducing the detainee population he inherited by more than half, but he compounded problems in the military commissions that the Bush administration had invented in the wake of the 9/11…

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Joe Biden under pressure to release ‘forever prisoner’ from Guantánamo Bay

UN experts call on US president in his final week in office to free Abu Zubaydah, who was detained 23 years ago in the aftermath of 9/11

The Guardian - UK

UK supreme court rules Guantánamo 'forever prisoner' can sue the government under English law – here's why it matters

The UK supreme court has ruled that a detainee in Guantánamo Bay can sue the UK government under English law over its alleged involvement in his detention and torture. This is the first case concerning the UK government’s liability for its participation in abuses committed by the CIA during the…

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UK's Supreme Court Rules In Favour Of Guantanamo Detainee

Britain's top court ruled Wednesday that a Guantanamo detainee waterboarded by the CIA can use English law in his claim against the UK government over alleged complicity in the torture.

International Business Times

Guantánamo prisoner can sue UK government, supreme court rules

Palestinian national claims British intelligence services asked CIA to put questions to him while he was being tortured in ‘black sites’

The Guardian - UK

US subjects Guantánamo Bay detainees to ‘cruel’ treatment, UN says after visit

First UN human rights investigator allowed to visit since it was set up says men subjected to ‘inhuman and degrading’ treatment

The Guardian - US

UK spies to be investigated over claims they were complicit in torture of CIA prisoner

Investigatory powers tribunal to examine complaint brought by Mustafa al-Hawsawi, who was tortured while detained by CIA

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U.S. continues quest to hide torture

Will we ever know the full story of the horrific global torture regime U.S. established in the War on Terror?

Salon

Guantanamo Bay prisoner's drawings lay bare brutal torture in CIA’s post-9/11 program

WARNING, CONTAINS DISTRESSING IMAGES: Abu Zubaydah, 52, was used as a human guinea pig in the CIA’s post-9/11 torture program and a landmark new report shows the brutal torture he was subject to

Daily Mirror

‘The forever prisoner’: Abu Zubaydah’s drawings expose the US’s depraved torture policy

Exclusive: For 21 years, the detainee has been in US custody without charge, tortured and sexually humiliated, with no prospect for release

The Guardian - US

‘Crimes against humanity’: UN body calls for release of Guantánamo inmate

UN’s arbitrary detention group calls for immediate release of Palestinian Abu Zubaydah, saying detention has no basis in law

The Guardian - US

Five ways the US Supreme Court reshaped policy in 2022

The court’s new conservative majority issued rulings over the past year on abortion, gun rights, religion and more.

Al Jazeera

Ex-CIA analyst recounts torture in secret Thai prison

WASHINGTON: In the 2012 Hollywood hit “Zero Dark Thirty,” a red-haired Central Intelligence Agency analyst played by Jessica Chastain travels to a secret CIA prison and watches a colleague waterboard a screaming Al Qaeda suspect, then lock him in a box a little bigger than a mini-fridge, to make him…

Bangkok Post

Exclusive-Ex-CIA analyst says she ‘got bloodied’ in tangled U.S. war on Al Qaeda

In the 2012 Hollywood hit “Zero Dark Thirty,” a red-haired Central Intelligence Agency analyst played by Jessica Chastain travels to a secret CIA prison and watches a colleague waterboard a screaming Al Qaeda suspect, then lock him in a box a little bigger than a mini-fridge, to make him talk.

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The Guardian - UK

UK spies who allegedly passed questions to CIA torturers subject to English law, court rules

Abu Zubaydah, tortured at CIA ‘black sites’ in six different countries, has right to sue UK government

Roll Call

‘Time becomes elastic’: the long legacy of Guantanamo Bay - Roll Call

SOTUS recently denied GITMO detainee Abu Zubaydah access to CIA interviews, but some of those same figures have been interviewed by filmmaker Alex Gibney.

The Guardian - US

Supreme court blocks men behind CIA’s ‘enhanced interrogation’ from testifying

The case was filed by Abu Zubaydah, a Guantánamo prisoner arrested and held without charge since 2002, in Poland

Reason

Supreme Court Rules the CIA Can Keep Mouths Shut About Its Post-9/11 Torture Black Sites

All of this is a transparent effort to stop lawsuits from those who have been tortured.

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Los Angeles Times

Supreme Court upholds government's claim of secrecy in case of prisoner tortured by CIA

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday the government may invoke the "state secrets" privilege to block former U.S. contractors from testifying about the now well-known waterboarding and torture of prisoners held at CIA sites in Poland.

Reason

Supreme Court Splinters Over State Secrets Privilege

Justice Breyer delivers the opinion for the Court in a heavily fractured opinion in U.S. v. Zubaydah.

The Guardian - US

White House announces new sanctions on Russian oligarchs and Putin’s ‘cronies’ – as it happened

‘We want him to feel the squeeze,’ says press secretary Jen Psaki

Roll Call

Supreme Court blocks Gitmo detainee’s search for testimony about CIA torture - Roll Call

The Supreme Court has blocked testimony about CIA torture programs sought by Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu Zubaydah.

The Guardian - UK

Abu Zubaydah case shows need to bolster intelligence and security committee

Letters: Stephen Timms and Andrew Tyrie say the ISC was thwarted in its attempts to examine Britain’s role in torture and unlawful rendition following 9/11

The Guardian - US

The CIA tortured him after 9/11. Then they lied. Will the truth ever come out?

Calls mount for release of full Senate report on the torture of Abu Zubaydah, to counter a narrative too many Americans still believe – that torture works

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