Abu Zubaydah

1. Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
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2. Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp
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Abu Zubaydah ( AH-boo zuu-BAY-də; Arabic: ابو زبيدة, romanized: Abū Zubāydāh, lit. 'Father of Jewels'; born March 12, 1971, as Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn) is a stateless Palestinian born in Saudi Arabia currently held by the U.S. in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. He is held under the authority of Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists (AUMF). The United States government has never officially charged him with any crime. Believed to be a high-ranking Al-Qaeda member, Zubaydah was captured in Pakistan in March 2002 and has been in United States custody ever since, including 4+1⁄2 years in the secret prison network of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). He was transferred among prisons in various countries, including a year in Poland, as part of a United States extraordinary rendition program. During his time in CIA custody, Zubaydah was extensively interrogated; he was waterboarded 83 times and subjected to numerous other torture techniques including forced nudity, sleep deprivation, confinement in small dark boxes, deprivation of solid food, stress positions, and physical assaults. Videotapes of Zubaydah's interrogations are among those destroyed by the CIA in 2005. Zubaydah and ten other "high-value detainees" were transferred to Guantanamo in September 2006. He and other former CIA detainees are held in Camp 7, where conditions are the most isolating. On July 24, 2014, the European Court of Human Rights ordered the Polish government to pay Zubaydah damages. Zubaydah stated through his U.S. lawyer that he would be donating the awarded funds to victims of torture.

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