Lithuania pays Guantánamo ‘forever prisoner’ Abu Zubaydah €100,000 over CIA torture

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Lithuania has paid more than $110,000 to Abu Zubaydah, the Guantanamo detainee known as the forever prisoner", in compensation for having allowed the CIA to hold him at a secret site outside Vilnius where he was subjected to forms of torture.

The 100,000 ($113,500) payment comes more than three years after the European Court of Human Rights ordered the Lithuanian government to pay compensation for violating European laws banning the use of torture.