UN Calls for Release of 'Tortured' Pakistani From Guantanamo
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Guantanamo Bay prisoner sin 2007. | Photo: Reuters.
The CIA has long been accused of using torture tactics against prisoners.
A UN working group has called for the release of a Pakistani man imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay since 2006, saying his detention violates international human rights.
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Ammar Al-Baluchi, a Kuwaiti-born Pakistani citizen also known as Abdul Aziz Ali, was accused of paying money to the 9/11 hijackers, conspiring alongside his uncle, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detentionsaid Wednesday that holding Al-Baluchi in the detention camp is “arbitrary, breaches international human rights law and has no legal basis.”
The group, a part of the UN Human R...