Eight former Russian Guantanamo prisoners are going to sue the U.S. for holding them illegally, Ekho Moskvy radio station reported.
The most active of the group, Airat Vakhitov, who has been closely cooperating with Russian rights activists and writing a book about Guantanamo, told the radio station that the current life of the former inmates is very difficult.
Two of them have been under examination facing charges of terrorism in Russia. One is dying of injuries he sustained in the notorious prison.
Vakhitov also said he has filed his own lawsuit on charges that he was subjected to torture and is awaiting the trial.
Eight Russians were seized in a counter-terrorist operation in Afghanistan and kept at the Guantanamo base in Cuba with other Taliban and terrorist suspects, and extradited home in 2004.
In Russia some of them, including Vakhitov himself, were detained on suspicion of preparing a series of terrorist attacks.
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