Monday, March 19, 2007
Australian detainee writes of beatings at Guantánamo - International Herald Tribune
David Hicks has alleged that during nearly five years in U.S. custody he has been frequently beaten during interrogations.
... The document said that beatings and other abuse included being thrown on the ground along with other detainees and walked on by soldiers, being stripped naked, having all his body hair shaved, and being subjected to injections. The maltreatment began during interrogations in Afghanistan and continued aboard U.S. Naval ships where he was held before being taken to Guantánamo, in early 2002 ...
One interrogator, "obviously agitated, took out his pistol and aimed it at me, with his hand shaking violently with rage." It was at this point, "I realized that if I did not cooperate with U.S. interrogators, I might be shot."
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Hicks said he could hear other detainees "screaming in pain" when being interrogated.
He was later transferred to the USS Bataan, where the conditions became "drastically" worse, he asserted. He was fed only a handful of rice or fruit three times a day, and on several occasions, he and other detainees, blindfolded, hooded, and handcuffed were thrown onto helicopters and taken to an unknown location, and put in a large hangar. ...
David Hicks has alleged that during nearly five years in U.S. custody he has been frequently beaten during interrogations.
... The document said that beatings and other abuse included being thrown on the ground along with other detainees and walked on by soldiers, being stripped naked, having all his body hair shaved, and being subjected to injections. The maltreatment began during interrogations in Afghanistan and continued aboard U.S. Naval ships where he was held before being taken to Guantánamo, in early 2002 ...
One interrogator, "obviously agitated, took out his pistol and aimed it at me, with his hand shaking violently with rage." It was at this point, "I realized that if I did not cooperate with U.S. interrogators, I might be shot."
...
Hicks said he could hear other detainees "screaming in pain" when being interrogated.
He was later transferred to the USS Bataan, where the conditions became "drastically" worse, he asserted. He was fed only a handful of rice or fruit three times a day, and on several occasions, he and other detainees, blindfolded, hooded, and handcuffed were thrown onto helicopters and taken to an unknown location, and put in a large hangar. ...
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