Guantánamo Bay
Former Guantánamo prisoner Lotfi Benali died in Mauritania on 9 March 2021. A Tunisian national, he was 55 and had been suffering from a long-term illness. He spent more than 13 years at Guantánamo without charge or trial. He was then sent by the Obama administration to Kazakhstan as Tunisia refused his repatriation. However, Kazakhstan refused to allow him to remain there permanently and he later moved to Mauritania which agreed to allow this Guantánamo refugee to live there. He was suffering from multiple physical and mental health problems at the time of his death, some that preceded his capture by the US and some that he acquired during US imprisonment without charge or trial for over a decade.
A 2016 interview with The Guardian after his arrival in Kazakhstan: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/30/worse-than-guantanamo-ex-prisoner-struggles-with-new-life-in-kazakhstan
Extraordinary Rendition
Human rights NGO Redress has filed a complaint with the UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal in relation to “evidence to suggest that UK
intelligence agencies encouraged, facilitated, or conspired with US authorities
in the torture and ill-treatment” of Guantánamo prisoner Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, a
Saudi national who was kidnapped and tortured in secret CIA detention for over
three years before arriving at Guantánamo Bay, where he is one of five
defendants in the capital case related to the September 2001 attacks in New
York City. The complaint has been made against the potential involvement of
various government agencies, “namely the Security Service (MI5), the Secret
Intelligence Service (MI6), Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and
the Defence Intelligence, Ministry of Defence (MoD)”. The NGO is seeking
documents and information about their involvement and complicity in his
torture. Hawsawi has already successfully brought a case against Lithuania at
the European Court of Human Rights concerning its involvement in his torture
when he was illegally detained there.
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