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March 23, 2010

Judge Orders Release of Gitmo Prisoner
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A federal judge has ordered the release of a Guantánamo Bay prisoner
who’s claimed to have suffered extensive torture and abuse during nearly
eight years in US captivity. Mohamedou Slahi arrived at Guantánamo in
August 2002 after turning himself in the year before in his native
Mauritania. Under “special interrogation techniques” authorized by
then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Slahi was subjected to sleep
deprivation, extreme heat and cold, death threats, and told that his
mother would be jailed if he didn’t cooperate. Slahi is the
thirty-fourth Guantánamo prisoner ordered released since the Supreme
Court ruled they can challenge their imprisonment in US courts.



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