A federal judge has ordered the release of a Guantánamo Bay prisoner who’s claimed to have suffered extensive torture and abuse during nearly eight years in US captivity. Mohamedou Slahi arrived at Guantánamo in August 2002 after turning himself in the year before in his native Mauritania. Under “special interrogation techniques” authorized by then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Slahi was subjected to sleep deprivation, extreme heat and cold, death threats, and told that his mother would be jailed if he didn’t cooperate. Slahi is the thirty-fourth Guantánamo prisoner ordered released since the Supreme Court ruled they can challenge their imprisonment in US courts.