this week, amnesty international released several new disturbing details and reports of u.s. led torture and illegal detentions...in a new report, 31-year-old yemeni national khaled abdu ahmed saleh al-maqtari, first detained at abu ghraib, recounts a regime of beatings, sleep deprivation, suspension upside-down in painful positions, intimidation by dogs, induced hypothermia and other forms of torture...
and in a new interview, murat kurnaz recounts in detail the torture, interrogation and illegal detention he endured for over five years...captured for a $3000 bounty, kurnaz was released in 2006 even though u.s. and german authorities determined his innocence in 2002...
the new report and interview come out the same week amnesty international observed a disturbing pre-trial proceeding at guantánamo of mohammed jawad...
detained when only 16 and visibly agitated at the hearing, jawad said he was tortured, the trials were unfair, and that he had been made permanently ill from being detained in a cell under bright florescent lights for five years...
from abu ghraib to secret cia custody: the case of khaled al-maqtari
read the full murat kurnaz interview
read the full account of this week's pre-trial proceeding at guantánamo
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