| Date: | Tuesday November 04, @01:21PM |
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| Author: | ewing2001 |
| Topic: | Bush |
| from the BBC dept. | |
BBC -November 4
A man who was imprisoned by the US military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is suing the Pakistani and US governments for damages worth over $10m.
Pakistani cleric Mohammed Sagheer was seized by US troops fighting in Afghanistan in 2001.
He spent roughly a year with other suspected al-Qaeda and Taleban operatives in the US military prison.
His lawyers say he is suing for the mental and physical torture he endured at Camp X-Ray in Guantanamo Bay.
Mr Sagheer filed his suit in an Islamabad court on Tuesday.
Lawyers acting for him said the case could be heard in a Pakistani court because Pakistan's interior ministry is one of the defendants.
In the first case of its kind, Mr Sagheer described his arrest by American authorities as illegal and his treatment at the prison camp in Guantanamo Bay as extremely inhuman.
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