Guantanamo Bay Britons sue US officials for £22m
"Four Britons who were held at Guantanamo Bay for more than two-and-a-half years sued the American Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior Pentagon officials for $40m (£22m) yesterday -- accusing them of organising, authorising and overseeing alleged torture and inhumane treatment at the US prison.
"Lawyers for the four, the so-called Tipton Three and a fourth Briton from Manchester, filed the civil suit in Washington DC yesterday morning, demanding $10m each in compensation for physical and mental abuse from which the men are still recovering. All four men, Rhuhel Ahmed, 22, Asif Iqbal, 22, Safiq Rasul, 27, and the Mancunian Jamal al-Harith, 37, were released from Guantanamo Bay earlier this year having never been charged with any offence." [my emphasis]
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"Four Britons who were held at Guantanamo Bay for more than two-and-a-half years sued the American Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior Pentagon officials for $40m (£22m) yesterday -- accusing them of organising, authorising and overseeing alleged torture and inhumane treatment at the US prison.
"Lawyers for the four, the so-called Tipton Three and a fourth Briton from Manchester, filed the civil suit in Washington DC yesterday morning, demanding $10m each in compensation for physical and mental abuse from which the men are still recovering. All four men, Rhuhel Ahmed, 22, Asif Iqbal, 22, Safiq Rasul, 27, and the Mancunian Jamal al-Harith, 37, were released from Guantanamo Bay earlier this year having never been charged with any offence." [my emphasis]
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