Five former Guantanamo Bay prisoners are seeking damages from the US government for what they say were years of sexual, mental and physical abuse at the American prison.
The men, who are from Turkey, Uzbekistan and Algeria, filed the complaints in a US appeals court on Friday, alleging that they were subjected to forced nudity, sexual harassment and physical beatings, first in Afghanistan and then at Guantanamo.
Judge David Tatel, one of the justices hearing the case, said that Pentagon officials had failed in their duty. "Their job is to protect the detainees from abuse, they failed to do so."
