Bahrain royal family member tortured at Guantanamo prison camp: rights cen [View All]

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11:55 PM EDT Aug 07
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - A Bahraini human rights groups said Saturday at least two Bahrainis, including a member of the closely U.S.-allied Persian Gulf state's royal family, being held at the U.S. navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been tortured and abused.

The Bahrain Centre for Human Rights said the allegations were based on a report by three Britons and a phone call by an Arab prisoner freed recently from the U.S. detention camp.

The rights group's president, Nabeel Rajab, identified the Bahrainis as Juma'a Mohammed al-Dossary and Sheik Salman bin Ebrahim bin Mohammed Al Khalifa.

Family members of both men, and four other Bahrainis detained in Guantanamo, said they were all performing humanitarian work in Pakistan when mercenaries from that country captured them and handed them over to U.S. forces, Rajab reported.

They were later sent to the detention facility in Cuba, where they are being held on suspicion of links to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network.

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