A Kuwaiti national has been freed from an eight-year imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay after a judge ruled US interrogators coerced him into making a wrongful confession. The prisoner, Fouad al Rabia, was seized in Afghanistan in 2001. Defense attorneys say Rabia was repeatedly tortured at Guantanamo until he falsely confessed to being an aide to Osama bin Laden. In her ruling, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said the military ignored evidence backing Rabia’s claim that he had gone to Afghanistan on an annual humanitarian mission. Rabia first challenged his imprisonment in 2002. It took seven years for his case to be heard.