![Dressed in bright orange coveralls, al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners wash before midday prayers at Camp X-Ray, where they are being held, at the US Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [Photo credit should read J. SCOTT APPLEWHITE/AFP via Getty Images]](https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/GettyImages-136443855.jpg)
A Palestinian man who was falsely accused of being a senior Al-Qaeda figure and subjected to years of extreme torture by the CIA has received “substantial” compensation from the UK government in settlement of a case over British complicity in his abuse. Abu Zubaydah, a Palestinian born in Saudi Arabia, has been held without charge or trial at Guantanamo Bay since 2006, after being captured in Pakistan in 2002 at the height of the so-called “war on terror”. US claims that he was a senior member of Al-Qaeda were later withdrawn, with Washington no longer contending that he belonged to the organisation at all. Despite this, Zubaydah became the first prisoner subjected to the CIA’s notorious “enhanced interrogation” programme, effectively […]
