UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention Demands U.S. Release Abu Zubaydah and Act on Other Guantánamo Detainees

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Friday, May 19, 2023
Author: 
Bruce Zagaris
Volume: 
39
Issue: 
5
Abstract: 

On April 6, 2023, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD), which is established under the United Nations Human Rights Council, issued an opinion, finding various violations of the international human rights of Abu Zubaydah, whom the U.S. has held in Guantánamo since 2006 without charges.[1]



[1]    United Nations Human Rights Council, Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, Opinion No. 66/2022 concerning Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn (Abu Zubaydah) (United States of America, Pakistan, Thailand, Poland, Morocco, Lithuania, Afghanistan and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) A/HRC/WGFAD/2022/66, Apr. 6, 2023.