Washington,United States — A Guantanamo Bay inmate alleges he was tortured by his American captors after the September 11 attacks and will file a complaint with the United Nations (UN) on Friday over his unending 19-year detention, his lawyer said.
Abu Zubaydah’s lawyer Helen Duffy said the complaint will be filed with the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention against the United States and six other countries, asking for intervention in his case.
The 50-year-old Saudi-born Palestinian, whose real name is Zaynal-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, was detained in Pakistan in March 2002 on suspicions he was a senior member of Al-Qaeda who helped plan the 9/11 attacks.
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