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| Abu Zubaydah | |
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| Born | Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn March 12, 1971[1][2] Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Arrested | March 2002 Faisalabad, Pakistan |
| Citizenship | Saudi |
| Detained at | CIA black sites, Guantanamo |
| ISN | 10016 |
| Charge(s) | Uncharged |
| Status | Currently detained |
Abu Zubaydah (/ˈɑːbuː zʊˈbeɪdə/ AH-boo zuu-BAY-də; Arabic: ابو زبيدة, Abū Zubaydah; born March 12, 1971, as Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn) is a Palestinian citizen born in Saudi Arabia[3] currently held by the U.S. in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. He is held under the authority of Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists (AUMF).
Zubaydah was captured in Pakistan in March 2002 and has been in United States custody ever since, including 4+1⁄2 years in the secret prison network of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He was transferred among prisons in various countries including a year in Poland, as part of a United States extraordinary rendition program.[4] During his time in CIA custody, Zubaydah was extensively interrogated; he was waterboarded 83 times[5] and subjected to numerous other torture techniques including forced nudity, sleep deprivation, confinement in small dark boxes, deprivation of solid food, stress positions, and physical assaults.[6] Videotapes of some of Zubaydah's interrogations are allegedly amongst those destroyed by the CIA in 2005.[7][8][9][10]
Zubaydah and ten other "high-value detainees" were transferred to Guantanamo in September 2006. He and other former CIA detainees are held in Camp 7, where conditions are the most isolating.
On July 24, 2014, the European Court of Human Rights ordered the Polish government to pay Zubaydah damages. Zubaydah stated through his US lawyer that he would be donating the awarded funds to victims of torture.
- ^ "JTF–GTMO Detainee Assessment" (PDF). New York Times. November 11, 2008. Retrieved October 11, 2022.
- ^ "Guatanamo Detainee Profile" (PDF). Periodic Review Secretariat. March 31, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2022.
- ^ Rosenberg, Carol (May 1, 2023). "U.N. Body Demands Release of Guantánamo Prisoner Who Was Tortured by the C.I.A." The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 11, 2023.
- ^ "Profile: Key US terror suspects". BBC News. February 11, 2008. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
- ^ Shane, Scott (April 19, 2009). "Waterboarding Used 266 Times on 2 Suspects". The New York Times.
- ^ Matthews, Dylan (December 9, 2014). "16 absolutely outrageous abuses detailed in the CIA torture report". Vox.
- ^ Esposito, Richard; Ryan, Jason (February 5, 2008). "CIA Chief: We Waterboarded". ABC News. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
- ^ "Abu Zubaydah's Torture Diary". Andy Worthington. March 15, 2010. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
- ^ "Headlines for March 30, 2009". Democracy Now!. March 30, 2009. Retrieved April 4, 2012.
- ^ Fink, Sheri (May 28, 2009). "Do CIA Cables Show Doctors Monitoring Torture?". ProPublica. Retrieved April 4, 2012.