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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Julian Borger Senior international correspondent

UK ‘pays substantial sum’ to tortured Guantánamo Bay detainee

The Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba
The Guantánamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

The UK has settled out of court by paying a “substantial sum” to a Guantánamo Bay detainee who was suing the government for its alleged complicity in his rendition and torture, according to the inmate’s legal team.

Lawyers for Abu Zubaydah have accused the British intelligence services of providing questions to his CIA interrogators to put to him while they were torturing him at a string of CIA “black sites” around the world where he was held between 2002 and 2006.

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