Movim • UK ministers should explain compensation payment to Guantánamo detainee, Dominic Grieve says

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UK ministers should explain compensation payment to Guantánamo detainee, Dominic Grieve says

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 12 January 2026

Former attorney general urges more clarity on British spy agencies’ role in Abu Zubaydah’s torture by CIA

Ministers should explain why the UK has paid compensation to a Palestinian man who was tortured by the CIA and is still being held in Guantánamo Bay , according to a former attorney general.

Abu Zubaydah, the first man subjected to CIA waterboarding, was reported by the BBC to have been awarded a payment that may amount to hundreds of thousands of pounds because of the role of MI5 and MI6 in his mistreatment.

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UK ministers should explain compensation payment to Guantánamo detainee, Dominic Grieve says

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 12 January 2026

Former attorney general urges more clarity on British spy agencies’ role in Abu Zubaydah’s torture by CIA

Ministers should explain why the UK has paid compensation to a Palestinian man who was tortured by the CIA and is still being held in Guantánamo Bay , according to a former attorney general.

Abu Zubaydah, the first man subjected to CIA waterboarding, was reported by the BBC to have been awarded a payment that may amount to hundreds of thousands of pounds because of the role of MI5 and MI6 in his mistreatment.

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UK ministers should explain compensation payment to Guantánamo detainee, Dominic Grieve says

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 12 January 2026

Former attorney general urges more clarity on British spy agencies’ role in Abu Zubaydah’s torture by CIA

Ministers should explain why the UK has paid compensation to a Palestinian man who was tortured by the CIA and is still being held in Guantánamo Bay , according to a former attorney general.

Abu Zubaydah, the first man subjected to CIA waterboarding, was reported by the BBC to have been awarded a payment that may amount to hundreds of thousands of pounds because of the role of MI5 and MI6 in his mistreatment.