He was hung naked from a ceiling beam, kept awake for days in freezing water, waterboarded, beaten, starved and sexually abused. They are some of the torture suffered during interrogation by a Guantanamo detainee, the American anti-terrorism prison in Cuba. For the first time a Guantanamo inmate speaks publicly about the practices used in ‘Black Site‘of the CIA where, in violation of the ‘Habeas corpus’ legislation (against arbitrary detentions) ‘advanced interrogations’ were conducted, comparable precisely to torture.
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To speak is Majid Khan, a former resident of the Baltimore suburbs hired as a courier by al-Qaeda, during a hearing in which jurors must decide on his conviction for war crimes. Khan said he was hung naked from a ceiling beam for long periods, kept awake for days in ice-cold water, waterboarded, beaten, starved and sexually abused. “The more I cooperated, the more they tortured me. I thought I was going to die “Khan said, as reported by CBS, who spent about three years in the CIA’s ‘Black Sites’ before being taken to Guantanamo in 2006.
A Pakistani citizen born in Saudi Arabia, Khan arrived in the United States with his family in the 1990s and was granted asylum. If convicted, the inmate faces 25 to 40 years in prison but will pay much less thanks to collaboration with the US authorities. With a plea deal, the sentence could be reduced to 11 years, but since he has been in prison since 2012, with a discounted sentence he could be free as early as next year and transferred to another country other than Pakistan, of which he holds citizenship.
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