The Forever Prisoner

CrimeDocumentary

2021, Movie, 2h

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.

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Critic Nick Allen

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It is eye-opening, and yet also like Gibney’s best work, affirming in the worst ways.

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