On 22 December 2021, Lithuania paid Mr Abu Zubaydah’s next of kin the compensation ordered by the ECtHR in its 2018 Abu Zubaydah v Lithuania judgment. The damages award against Poland remains pending. Compensation has symbolic and practical importance, and we welcome Lithuanian compliance with this aspect of reparation. Other aspects remain woefully neglected; these include the need to finally recognise responsibility and offer a public apology, to expose and confront the truth and learn lessons for the future, to ensure investigation and accountability. In particular, on the twentieth anniversary of the opening of Guantanamo, states should take all possible measures to ensure that the ongoing violation of our clients rights through his arbitrary detention at Guantanamo Bay is brought to an end.