The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit accusing the US government of stonewalling an attempt to unearth details of the alleged torture and imprisonment of a US citizen in the United Arab Emirates. The alleged victim, Naji Hamdan, was held for nearly three months without charge and was denied access to a lawyer and contact with his family. Hamdan says he was beaten, kicked in the liver, strapped to an electric chair, and told his wife would be raped in front of him. Hamdan moved to the UAE from the United States in 2006 after being the target of intense FBI scrutiny and was jailed just weeks after FBI agents questioned him at the US embassy in Abu Dhabi. The ACLU says the federal government has ignored a six-month-old Freedom of Information Act request for information about the FBI’s long-term surveillance of Hamdan, as well the US role in his imprisonment and torture. Hamdan has also claimed an unidentified American took part in his interrogation.