UN Condemns 21-Year Imprisonment Of Abu Zubaydah As Arbitrary Detention: Suggests Guantánamo’s Detention System ‘May Constitute Crimes Against Humanity’ – OpEd

In what strikes me as the single most devastating condemnation by an international body that has ever been issued with regard to the US’s detention policies in the “war on terror” — both in CIA “black sites” and at Guantánamo — the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has declared that the 21-year imprisonment...