12.19.2004
Freed Briton Details U.S. Abuses at Guantanamo (AlJazeera.com)
A Briton freed from the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, told Europe's top human rights body on Friday that he was beaten, shackled, locked inside a cage and fed rotten food as part of "systematic abuse" in U.S. custody.
Jamal al-Harith's statement before a panel from the Council of Europe was a part of an investigation by the body into human rights abuses at the U.S. naval base. The findings of the probe are expected to be made public in a report early next year.
Al-Harith, 37, described his two-year confinement at Guantanamo as a period of continued mistreatment that ranged from humiliation and 15-hour interrogations to physical abuses that he said left scars.
(More ... Freed Briton details U.S. abuses at Guantanamo) ¶ 20:35
Jamal al-Harith's statement before a panel from the Council of Europe was a part of an investigation by the body into human rights abuses at the U.S. naval base. The findings of the probe are expected to be made public in a report early next year.
Al-Harith, 37, described his two-year confinement at Guantanamo as a period of continued mistreatment that ranged from humiliation and 15-hour interrogations to physical abuses that he said left scars.
(More ... Freed Briton details U.S. abuses at Guantanamo) ¶ 20:35
