Guantanamo inmate was murdered, claims Yemeni father

Mourners packed the home of a Yemeni who died at the American prison in Guantanamo Bay as his family dismissed US claims that he committed suicide and accused prison authorities of murdering him.

Men in traditional robes and head-dresses sipped black coffee at the home of Ali Abdullah Ahmed, while veiled women draped in black gathered in a separate section, paying their respect to Ahmed's parents in a small farming village on the outskirts of Taiz in the mountains of southern Yemen.