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MOSCOW, Oct. 25 (UPI) -- Russia is holding a former U.S. prisoner from Guantanamo Bay in the attack this month in the southern Russian town of Nalchik in which 128 people died.
Rasul Kudayev, who was returned to Russia in February last year, was detained on Sunday at his home in Nalchik, say his mother and lawyer, reports The Times of London.
Russian media said the 24-year-old was arrested on suspicion of taking part in the Oct. 13 raid on Nalchik, capital of the Kabardino-Balkariya republic. His lawyer Clive Stafford Smith said the allegations were based on a groundless tip-off.
Stafford Smith, who is with a British charity, is helping Kudayev and six other Russian Guantanamo prisoners to sue the United States over their treatment.
Kudayev was among those arrested by U.S. as "enemy combatants" in Afghanistan in 2001 and taken to Guantanamo Bay.
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