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Brothers Seek Torture Documents from FBI

by Tim Hull for Court House News Service, view original article

August 20, 2010

LOS ANGELES (CN) - After the FBI, CIA and other federal agencies subjected two brothers to "constant surveillance and questioning over the course of a decade," one was "arrested by the United Arab Emirates authorities at the behest of the U.S. government and detained in a secret location where he was tortured and interrogated with U.S. approval," the brothers claim in Federal Court. "He filed a lawsuit in federal district court alleging that the U.S. government was complicit in his abduction. Shortly afterwards, he was released from the secret prison."
Naji Hamdan claims he was abducted, imprisoned and tortured, and his brother, Hossam Hemdan (sic), was subjected to "intensive surveillance."

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