Military panel calls treatment of Guantanamo detainee 'an affront to American values'
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A US military panel asked for clemency in the case against a Guantánamo detainee, saying in a letter obtained by CNN that the treatment the detainee has experienced while in US custody over the past almost two decades is "an affront to American values and concept of justice."
The New York Times was first to report the letter.
Majid Shoukat Khan is one of 39 detainees who still remains at the military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Khan was captured in Pakistan in 2003 and was held for more than three years at secret CIA prisons known as "black sites." Khan's attorneys have said that he suffers "severe physical and psychological trauma from which he is unlikely ever to recover fully" as a result of the torture.
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