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February 24, 2023

U.S. Frees Two Guantánamo Prisoners Who Faced Torture and 20 Years of Arbitrary Detention
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The Biden administration has released two more prisoners from the
Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba. Mohammed and Abdul Rabbani, two
brothers now in their mid-fifties, were repatriated to Pakistan after
they were held without charges for two decades. The U.S. accused them of
providing low-level logistical support to al-Qaeda, but never provided
evidence in a court of law. Both brothers say they were tortured at a
secret CIA prison in Afghanistan for about 550 days before they were
transferred to Guantánamo in 2004. The U.S. continues to imprison 32 men
at Guantánamo.


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