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Seattle church campaigns to free Guantanamo prisoner

by Cydney Gillis | April 21st, 2011

Adnan Latif was in the wrong place at the .wrong time when Pakistani authorities .arrested him, his supporters say.

Nine years later, it seems he's still in the wrong place: detained at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Soldiers there keep him isolated in a psychiatric ward and frequently beat him, according to his lawyer, David Remes. Because Latif joined a hunger strike in 2007, they also continue to force feed him through his nose.

In August 2010, a judge ruled there was no evidence that Latif, originally from Yemen, had ever raised a hand against the United States and ordered his release. But the Obama Administration has appealed the order and is fighting to keep him locked up.

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