US top court hears Guantanamo detainee’s ‘state secrets’ case
Al Jazeera
Three US Supreme Court justices question why detainee Abu Zubaydah cannot testify about alleged CIA ‘torture’.
The United States Supreme Court has begun hearing the case of a Guantanamo detainee seeking to compel two CIA contractors to testify about the alleged torture he was subjected to at an agency “black site” in Poland.
The country’s top court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in the case of Abu Zubaydah, who has been held at the infamous US-run prison camp in Cuba since 2006, with three of the nine justices asking why he cannot speak for himself.
“Why not make the witness available? What is the government’s objection to the witness testifying on his own treatment and not requiring any addition from the government of any kind?” Justice Neil Gorsuch asked.
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