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June 22, 2023

Prosecutors Disclose Discovery of Video Showing Treatment of Guantánamo Prisoner Who Faced Torture
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In news from Guantánamo, prosecutors have discovered there are videos of
guards forcing a Saudi prisoner to leave his cell around the time the
man reportedly admitted to plotting the attack on the USS Cole off the
coast of Yemen in 2000, which killed 17 sailors. Attorneys for Abd
al-Rahim al-Nashiri have said his admission of guilt was tainted by
years of torture, first at CIA black sites and later at Guantánamo. The
U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention recently called for the
immediate release of al-Nashiri due to his mistreatment.


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