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December 10, 2009

Kuwait Prisoner Released from Gitmo
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A Kuwaiti national has been freed from an eight-year imprisonment at
Guantanamo Bay after a judge ruled US interrogators coerced him into
making a wrongful confession. The prisoner, Fouad al Rabia, was seized
in Afghanistan in 2001. Defense attorneys say Rabia was repeatedly
tortured at Guantanamo until he falsely confessed to being an aide to
Osama bin Laden. In her ruling, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said the
military ignored evidence backing Rabia’s claim that he had gone to
Afghanistan on an annual humanitarian mission. Rabia first challenged
his imprisonment in 2002. It took seven years for his case to be heard.



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