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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Dan Sabbagh Defence and security editor

UK ministers should explain compensation payment to Guantánamo detainee, Dominic Grieve says

The silhouette of a man at the Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba.
Abu Zubaydah has reportedly been awarded a ‘substantial’ payment because of the role of MI5 and MI6 in his mistreatment at Guantánamo Bay. Photograph: Mladen Antonov/AFP/Getty Images

Ministers should explain why the UK has paid compensation to a Palestinian man who was tortured by the CIA and is still being held in Guantánamo Bay, according to a former attorney general.

Abu Zubaydah, the first man subjected to CIA waterboarding, was reported by the BBC to have been awarded a payment that may amount to hundreds of thousands of pounds because of the role of MI5 and MI6 in his mistreatment.

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