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Apparently there is a US federal law that provides $50,000 per year of confinement in the case of a wrongful conviction: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-a
by tyingq 5y ago
Apparently there is a US federal law that provides $50,000 per year of confinement in the case of a wrongful conviction: https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2017/03/14/what-do-states-owe-people-who-are-wrongfully-convicted https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/sta...
No idea if it applies to non-citizens.
Some Guantanamo detainees got compensation from the UK and Canada:
https://www.voanews.com/europe/british-government-pays-compensation-former-guantanamo-detainees https://www.voanews.com/europe/british-government-pays-compe...
https://www.newsweek.com/guantanamo-bay-detainee-omar-khadr-wins-10m-canada-631792 https://www.newsweek.com/guantanamo-bay-detainee-omar-khadr-...
- baybal2 5y ago> One of the former detainees who received compensation, Binyam Mohamed, claims Britain knew he had been sent by the U.S. security agency to Morocco where his genitals were sliced with a scalpel during interrogation.