[JURIST] Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Adel Hassan Hamad filed suit in the US District Court for the Western District of Washington Wednesday against the US government and more than a dozen government officials. Hamad, a Sudanese aid worker captured in Pakistan in 2002, claims he was tortured during his time at Guantanamo Bay. A lawyer for Hamad claimed in 2007 that he was not guilty of any crimes and that the government had obstructed lawyers’ attempts to clear his name. It is unclear how much compensation Hamad is seeking.
Hamad was among a group of former detainees who announced in Sudan in 2008 that they planned to sue the US government in US courts. The US government released Hamad in 2007. Earlier that year, Hamad’s lawyers filed an affidavit signed by an unnamed Army officer accusing the government of bias in its treatment of detainees.