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 9/11Joe Biden is under growing pressure to use his last week in office to free Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian detained 23 years ago in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and held without charge in Guantánamo Bay.A panel of UN experts and a group of 100 legal and human rights scholars have written to the president appealing to him to pardon the 53-year-old prisoner, the first 9/11 detainee to be tortured at the CIA global network of secret prisons. Continue reading…
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Author : Julian Borger
Publish date : 2025-01-13 17:56:00
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Joe Biden under pressure to release ‘forever prisoner’ from Guantánamo Bay
