Joe Biden under pressure to release ‘forever prisoner’ from Guantánamo Bay
UN experts call on US president in his final week in office to free Abu Zubaydah, who was detained 23 years ago in the aftermath of 9/11
Joe Biden is under growing pressure to use his last week in office to free Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian detained 23 years ago in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and held without charge in Guantánamo Bay.
A panel of UN experts and a group of 100 legal and human rights scholars have written to the president appealing to him to pardon the 53-year-old prisoner, the first 9/11 detainee to be tortured at the CIA global network of secret prisons.
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