Bangladeshi torture centre mapped by former inmate

[Joanne98]

Hand-drawn map shows nine cells, corridors where some inmates were kept chained and two interrogation rooms

A detailed map of a notorious Bangladeshi torture centre where several British nationals were held and interrogated has been produced by one of its former inmates.

The hand-drawn plan of the Task Force for Interrogation cell (TFI) in the northern suburbs of the capital, Dhaka, shows the mistreatment of detainees to be a deliberate and systematic affair.

Some inmates are held in one of nine cells, each measuring 3ft by 7ft, and many more are chained up in corridors, with their hands shackled to the bars of windows above their head. Some, according to the man who drew the map, are hooded and handcuffed and forced to kneel in the corridors for days or weeks.

At the end of one corridor are two torture rooms. One room, which has an observation window, is said to be equipped with pulleys and with a volt meter, to measure levels of electricity. Former inmates say fingernails litter the floor.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/18/bangladesh-torture-centre-map

Interactive map at link