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CCR: Families Demand Justice for Abuse and Deaths of Wrongfully Detained Sons at Guantanamo

Fri, 01/30/2009 - 11:52am

Center for Constitutional Rights:

Families Demand Justice for Abuse and Deaths of Wrongfully Detained Sons at Guantanamo

Action Seeks to Hold Rumsfeld and Other Officials Responsible for Deaths of Yasser Al-Zahrani and Salah Ali Abdullah Ahmed Al-Salami

January 29, 2009, Washington, D.C. – Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and the International Human Rights Law Clinic at the Washington College of Law filed the final brief in a civil action naming Donald Rumsfeld and 23 other military and medical officials for their role in the illegal detention, torture, inhumane conditions, and ultimate deaths of Yasser Al-Zahrani and Salah Ali Abdullah Ahmed Al-Salami while in the custody of the United States at Guantánamo Bay. The case was filed by the families of the two men, who also seek to hold U.S. officials responsible for the government’s callous response following the deaths.

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