Abu Zubaydah needs to query two former CIA contractors who allegedly tortured him in Poland.
The Supreme Courtroom will resolve whether or not a Palestinian man captured within the wake of the 9/11 assaults on New York Metropolis and Washington, DC, and detained on the jail on the US base at Guantanamo Bay can get entry to info the federal government classifies as state secrets and techniques.
Abu Zubaydah, also referred to as Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, was initially captured in Pakistan in March, 2002 and imprisoned in CIA detention amenities overseas. The US authorities says he was an affiliate and longtime ally of Osama bin Laden. Zubaydah and his lawyer need to query two former CIA contractors, James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, concerning the operation of a secret CIA facility in Poland the place they are saying Zubaydah was held and tortured.
A Supreme Courtroom doc (PDF) particulars how Zubaydah was held in numerous CIA “black websites” and endured “a relentless regime of ‘enhanced interrogations‘” together with being waterboarded 83 instances in a single month in 2002. Zubaydah was additionally “pressured to stay awake for eleven consecutive days and doused many times with chilly water when he collapsed into sleep” crammed into small containers, suspended bare from hooks for hours, and “subjected to a very grotesque humiliation described by the CIA as ‘rectal rehydration’”.
Al Jazeera America reported in 2014 that Zubaydah “was the one captive subjected to all 10 torture methods recognized in an August 2002 Justice Division memo”.
The US Courtroom of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco dominated 2-1 in 2019 that the 2 contractors might face restricted questioning. In that ruling, the courtroom used the phrase “torture” to explain the remedy of Zubaydah.
In asking the Supreme Courtroom to take the case, the federal government stated it has declassified a “vital quantity of data relating to the previous CIA Program, together with the small print of Abu Zubaydah’s remedy whereas in CIA custody, which included using enhanced interrogation methods”. Nevertheless it stated it had “decided that sure classes of data – together with the identities of its international intelligence companions and the placement of former CIA detention amenities of their nations – couldn’t be declassified with out risking undue hurt to the nationwide safety”.
The excessive courtroom won’t hear the case till someday after its new time period begins in October.
President Joe Biden’s administration has stated he’ll search to shut the jail on the US base at Guantanamo Bay following a evaluate course of that started beneath the administration of former US President Barack Obama.
Obama tried to shut Guantanamo Bay, and transferred almost 200 prisoners to different nations throughout his eight years in workplace, 2009-2017, however was unable to empty the jail the place 40 detainees stay.