The Forever Prisoner
Dec 03 2021
•2h 0m
•Documentary, Crime
The chilling story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA’s program of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, later identified as torture by those outside the agency. Having never been charged with a crime or allowed to challenge his detention, Zubaydah remains imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay in Kafkaesque limbo, in direct contravention of America’s own ideals of justice and due process.
Cast
See allAbu Zubaydah
Self (archive footage)
Ali Soufan
Self
Stephen Gaudin
Self
James Mitchell
Self
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