The chilling story of Abu Zubaydah, the first high-value detainee subjected to the CIA’s program of Enhanced Interrogation Techniques, later identified as torture by those outside the agency. Having never been charged with a crime or allowed to challenge his detention, Zubaydah remains imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay in Kafkaesque limbo, in direct contravention of America’s own ideals of justice and due process.
Directed by Alex Gibney
Starring Abu Zubaydah, Ali Soufan, Stephen Gaudin, James Mitchell, John Rizzo, Hesham Abu Zubaidah, Joseph Margulies, Chantell Higgins
Digital release (the first date to rent, buy or stream): 6 December 2021.
A premiere or festival screening is listed for 3 December 2021; that is not a cinema release.
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6 December 2021
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