A judge at the U.S. military court in Guantánamo Bay has ruled that a prisoner there may be entitled to a more lenient sentence if he was tortured in CIA custody. The decision could potentially apply to several other prisoners there.
"It's a big deal in Mr. Khan's case," he said."It's an equally big deal in its potential much broader application to other torture survivors at Guantanamo."
Khan, 40, pleaded guilty to multiple charges in 2012 but has not yet been sentenced because he is serving as a government witness in a pending case, and because his request for leniency in sentencing has also been pending. "You have a military judge at Guantánamo saying, I've looked at these allegations and if these allegations are true, they rise to the level of torture," said Khan's lawyer, J. Wells Dixon."That is tremendously significant."
Khan was born in Pakistan in 1980, moved to the United States in 1996, and graduated from a high school in suburban Baltimore. He remained in the U.S. until 2002, when he traveled overseas to work for al-Qaeda. He was arrested in Pakistan in 2003 and taken into custody by the CIA, which for three years held him in its network of secret overseas prisons known as black sites. In 2006, Khan was transferred to Guantánamo, where he has remained.
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