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Former Guantánamo Bay prisoner Abu Wa’el Dhiab in Buenos Aires on Feb. 13, 2015. He is one of six former inmates the US released to Uruguay in December 2014.

The truth about the former Gitmo prisoner ‘missing’ from Uruguay

July 20, 2016Justice

Before being released to Uruguay in 2014, former Guantánamo Bay detainee Abu Wa’el Dhiab had been a long-term hunger-striker who was force-fed hundreds of times, writes a lawyer who represented him.

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