By Emma Farge

GENEVA (Reuters) -A U.N. body has found that the United States and the United Arab Emirates are jointly responsible for holding an Afghan man in arbitrary detention in Abu Dhabi for over two years in a case rights groups say is emblematic of thousands of others.

The man, a former police force colonel who had worked with U.S. forces and received threats from the Islamist Taliban movement, was evacuated with his family during the hurried U.S. exit from Afghanistan in 2021 under former President Joe Biden.

Referred to as "Mr. B" for his protection, the man was evacuated by private U.S. operators who told him he would stay in the UAE for 14 days before being transferred to the U.S., the U.N. documents showed.

Instead, he was held in the "Emirates........

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