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Lithuania has paid 100,000 euros (US$113,377) to Abu Zubaydah, the Guantanamo detainee known as the “forever prisoner,” in compensation for having allowed the CIA to hold him at a secret site outside Vilnius where he was subjected to forms of torture. The payment comes more than three years after the European Court of Human Rights ordered the Lithuanian government to pay compensation for violating European laws banning the use of torture. <strong>HELD FOR 20 YEARS</strong> It marks a significant shift in the treatment of Zubaydah, who has been detained by the US without charge for more than 20 years. Zubaydah was captured in Pakistan

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