UK ministers should explain compensation payment to Guantánamo detainee, Dominic Grieve says

Former attorney general urges more clarity on British spy agencies’ role in Abu Zubaydah’s torture by CIA

Ministers should explain why the UK has paid compensation to a Palestinian man who was tortured by the CIA and is still being held in Guantánamo Bay, according to a former attorney general.

Abu Zubaydah, the first man subjected to CIA waterboarding, was reported by the BBC to have been awarded a payment that may amount to hundreds of thousands of pounds because of the role of MI5 and MI6 in his mistreatment.