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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Julian Borger in Washington

‘Crimes against humanity’: UN body calls for release of Guantánamo inmate

View of prison gates from outside
The UNWGAD finding released on Friday specifically addresses the case of Zubaydah, a 52-year-old Palestinian captured in Pakistan in 2002. Photograph: Thomas Watkins/AFP/Getty Images

A UN body has declared that the detention of a long-term Guantánamo inmate, Abu Zubaydah, has no lawful basis and called for his immediate release, warning that the systemic deprivation of liberty at the camp may “constitute crimes against humanity”.

The UN working group on arbitrary detention (UNWGAD), also declared the UK, among other countries, was “jointly responsible for the torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of Mr Zubaydah” over his more than 20 years in detention.

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