UK pays compensation as US keeps Guantanamo torture victim imprisoned without trial
The UK government has paid substantial compensation to Abu Zubaydah, a man tortured by the CIA and still held without charge at the US prison at Guantanamo Bay nearly 20 years later. According to a report from the BBC, Zubaydah was the first detainee subjected to the CIA’s so-called ‘enhanced interrogation program’ after 9/11, after being falsely portrayed by US officials as a senior Al-Qaeda figure, a claim Washington later abandoned.
British intelligence agencies MI5 and MI6 were found to have passed questions to the CIA for use during his interrogations despite knowing he was being tortured, leading Zubaydah to accuse the UK of complicity in his abuse. His legal case has now ended in a financial settlement, though his lawyer Helen Duffy said the payment was significant but insufficient while he remains unlawfully detained, stressing that the violations of his rights are ongoing.
Zubaydah has been held at Guantanamo since 2006 after years in secret CIA black sites, where he was waterboarded, confined in coffin shaped boxes and physically abused. Despite repeated findings condemning his treatment by US and UK authorities, he remains a so called ‘forever prisoner’, highlighting how the US continues to evade accountability for torture carried out during the so-called ‘war on terror.’
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