Guantanamo Bay: For the first time, a prisoner publicly details the torture in US's facilities

[Judi Lynn]

Source: The Week (India)

Majid Khan said he was "left terrified and hallucinating"
Web Desk Updated: October 30, 2021 11:57 IST



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Majid Khan, a man from the US state of Maryland, described in open court details of the torture he was subject to at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, becoming the first person to openly testify about the abuse in the US facility.

Khan was sentenced to 26 years by a military jury after he admitted joining al-Qaida.

The sentencing of Majid Khan is the culmination of the first trial by military commission for one of the 14 so-called high-value detainees who were sent to the US naval base in Cuba in 2006 after being held in a clandestine network of overseas CIA detention facilities and subjected to the harsh interrogation program developed in response to the 9/11 attacks.

Khan said he was left terrified and hallucinating from the techniques that the CIA deployed. "I thought I was going to die," he told the jury in his statement.

He spoke of being suspended naked from a ceiling beam for long periods, doused with ice water to keep him awake. He was repeatedly beaten, given forced enemas, sexually assaulted and starved in various CIA “black sites”.

Read more: https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2021/10/30/guantanamo-bay-for-the-first-time-a-prisoner-publicly-details-the-torture-in-uss-facilities.html

[Solly Mack]

1. K&R

[Roy Rolling]

2. Insanity

Poor men in a rich man’s gulag for fighting another rich man’s war.

[johnthewoodworker]

3. Another example of a fascist USA. Nazi Germany, we're right behind you.

[3Hotdogs]

4. And this was done in our name.

And it goes on today.

[Pepsidog]

5. Future home to Trump Traitor Inc.

[Evolve Dammit]

6. Never did see the torture report from Iraq did we? Senators did, and were visibly shaken afterwards.

I read that the remaining copies have been destroyed. 45 was right about one thing, "We" (US) do it too.

[SamKnause]

7. And no one was held accountable.

We are now a country that tortures.

We illegally invade countries.

And no one is held accountable.

Rinse and repeat.

[Fiendish Thingy]

8. This is one of the main reasons I moved to Canada 9 years ago. Nt

[Polybius]

9. If true, the place needs to be shut down

How credible what Khan is saying is, I have no idea.

[FakeNoose]

10. Does anyone wonder why these people hate us?