U.N. Body Condemns Torture of Guantanamo Prisoner Awaiting Capital Trial
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A United Nations human rights panel has issued a damning report that blames the United States and seven other nations for the C.I.A.'s torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of a Saudi prisoner who now awaits a death penalty trial at Guantanamo Bay.The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention also named as responsible the United Arab Emirates, where the prisoner, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, was captured in 2002, and Afghanistan, Lithuania, Morocco, Poland, Romania and Thailand, where he was held as part of a rendition and interrogation program run by the George W. Bush administration.
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