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Britain Hands Cash to Tortured Gitmo Detainee
16 Jan 2026 09:24 GMT
… US “war on terror” to be tortured, and was subjected … at the time termed “enhanced interrogation techniques”, in secret prisons in … knowledge that he was being tortured.
The amount of financial … inquiries into the use of torture, Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded …
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Outrage as terror suspect ex-client of Starmer's woke law chief wins UK payout
13 Jan 2026 06:45 GMT
A terror suspect who was represented by Keir Starmer's law chief has been handed a 'substantial' payout by the UK, sparking outrage among Tory MPs. Abu Zubaydah, who has been detained by the US authorities since his capture in 2002 in the wake …
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UK pay compensation to Guantanamo detainee over torture
13 Jan 2026 05:56 GMT
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 …
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Guantanamo detainee paid ‘substantial’ compensation by UK to settle torture complicity case
13 Jan 2026 01:17 GMT
… to a man who was tortured by the CIA and … to the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation” techniques after the 11 September 2001 … were “complicit” in his torture.
The case has now reached … “share responsibility for his ongoing torture and unlawful detention” to ensure …
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Fury as Labour approves 'substantial' payout to Guantanamo Bay terror suspect once represented by their own Attorney General Lord Hermer: Tories criticise 'disgraceful capitulation'
13 Jan 2026 00:03 GMT
A terror suspect who was represented by Keir Starmer's law chief has been handed a 'substantial' payout by the UK, sparking outrage among Tory MPs.
Abu Zubaydah, who has been detained by the US authorities since his capture in 2002 in the wake …
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Hermer ‘paved the way for payout to Guantanamo terror suspect’
12 Jan 2026 22:02 GMT
… compensation payout to a terror suspect he represented.
Abu … subjected to CIA “enhanced interrogation” techniques after the September 11 … were “complicit” in his torture. The court ruled in … Advertisement
Lord Hermer, a human rights barrister who was appointed …
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Fury as Labour approves 'substantial' payout to Guantanamo Bay terror suspect once represented by their own Attorney General Lord Hermer: Tories criticise 'disgraceful capitulation'
12 Jan 2026 18:52 GMT
A terror suspect who was represented by Keir Starmer's law chief has been handed a 'substantial' payout by the UK, sparking outrage among Tory MPs.
Abu Zubaydah, who has been detained by the US authorities since his capture in 2002 in the wake …
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UK pays compensation to Gitmo detainee Abu Zubaydah over torture case
12 Jan 2026 17:40 GMT
… as waterboarding, among other methods which qualify as human rights abuses … responsibility for his ongoing torture and unlawful detention.”
The … .S. deems as terrorism suspects and “illegal … testing of brutal torturous “interrogation techniques” which the CIA …
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UK pays ‘substantial’ compensation to Palestinian Guantanamo detainee over torture
12 Jan 2026 17:13 GMT
… services were complicit in his torture. Evidence showed that MI5 … that by UK standards constitutes torture. This included being waterboarded … a “guinea pig” for interrogation methods that were later used on … successes of the war on terror, with claims that he …
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Guantanamo detainee is paid 'substantial' compensation by UK after he accused MI5 and MI6 of passing questions to CIA to use in his torture
12 Jan 2026 13:09 GMT
A Guantanamo Bay prisoner who claims Britain was complicit in his torture by the CIA has received 'substantial' payment after spending almost 20 years at the notorious detention camp.
Abu Zubaydah, who has been held at the Cuba prison since 2006 …