Guantanamo Inmates Turn to Freed Fellows

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/02/AR2006120200837.html

WASHINGTON -- Like more than a hundred enemy combatants held without charges at the Navy's Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, Hamid Al Razak of Afghanistan turned to a fellow prisoner for legal help.

His bid for help unleashed a federal judge's condemnation of the U.S. government's detention policies. snip

Al Razak's legal filings say he is not a member of the Taliban, al-Qaida or any terrorist group, but has been kept in isolation, repeatedly interrogated and severely beaten, put in cages without privacy, shackled with heavy chains and irons, exposed to extreme temperatures, sexually humiliated and subjected to violent behavior and psychological abuse.

Kessler wrote that Al Razak has been cut off from family, friends and indeed all of the outside world for more than three years, can't speak English, doesn't know the criminal justice system, lacks access to a law library, and has no criminal charges filed against him. snip

"He has every reason to distrust his captors and keepers. He has every reason to rely on the friendship of other detainees, who speak his language and suffer the same disabilities. He has every reason to challenge his detainment," Kessler wrote. "He cannot communicate with his attorney, nor does he even know at present that he has an attorney. He has no expectation of release, ever."

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