UK pay compensation to Guantanamo detainee over torture

5 days ago

The UK government has paid "substantial" compensation to a Guantanamo detainee who was tortured by the CIA and has been held there without charge for two decades, the BBC has reported. Abu Zubaydah, 54, was the first of a number of prisoners to be subjected to CIA "enhanced interrogation" techniques following the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. The Saudi-born Palestinian -