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Althin said they would bring the case in the United States, taking advantage of a U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) ruling that men held in Guantanamo, whom the U.S. government suspects of terrorism, could challenge their detention in U.S. courts.
Most of them have been held for more than two years without charges or access to lawyers. The Pentagon (news - web sites) said Ghezli was the 135th prisoner to be released from the base. Some 594 others remain incarcerated.
The son of an Algerian-born immigrant, Ghezali was released from the Cuban base on July 8 after pressure from Sweden including a meeting in Washington between Prime Minister Goran Persson and President Bush (news - web sites).
Ghezali has said he was subjected to interrogations almost every day and tortured by exposure to freezing cold, noise and bright lights, deprived of sleep and chained in painful positions. Washington dismissed the complaints of mistreatment. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20040716/wl_nm/sweden_guantanamo_dc