Tortures

Guantanamo detainee sues creators of CIA's harsh tactics

Attorneys for a detainee at Guantanamo Bay are suing the psychologists who created the CIA's harsh interrogation techniques used in the war on terror, aiming to compel them to provide information to Polish officials who are investigating a former CIA jail in that country.

The lawsuit was filed late last month in federal court in eastern Washington state and was announced Wednesday by the London-based human rights group Reprieve. The suit details what it describes as the torture of Abu Zubaydah, who was held in the CIA black site, or secret interrogation facility, in Stare Kiejkuty, Poland, from Dec. 5, 2002-Sept. 22, 2003.

Zubaydah, described in official U.S. documents as a "facilitator" for al-Qaida, has been held at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba since September 2006.