Hundreds of detainees are held incommunicado in Guantanamo (AFP)

CAIRO, August 8 (IslamOnline.net) – A British detainee at Guantanamo has used heavily coded and carefully written letters on his sufferings inside the notorious US detention camp to escape the military censors, a British newspaper revealed Sunday, August 8.

The letters from Martin Mubanga, one of the last remaining British detainees in Guantanamo Bay, unearthed serious new allegations about the ill-treatment of prisoners at the infamous camp, accusing his US jailers of sexual assault and physical violence in his 8ft-by-6ft cell, The Independent reported.

Mubanga, who holds dual Zambian-British citizenship, used a unique mixture of London street slang, Cockney, Jamaican patois and rap lyrics to get the stamp “Cleared by US Forces” on his letters.

In his letters home to his younger brother, he talks about “radix”, slang for the authorities or police, and about the “bull boy” guards “giving it large”, a reference to threats and the use of violence.

Other passages accuse the guards of threatening him with sexual abuse: “Expecting man n' man to bend over so as them there can give to man n' man real good”.

Mubanga, 31, a former motorcycle courier and a late revert to Islam, has been imprisoned at the Delta Camp for the past two and a half years after being arrested in peculiar circumstances by Zambian intelligence services.

The day he arrived in the US prison he sent home a scrawled six-word note in shaky capital letters, with a crossed-out misspelling of Guantanamo Bay , through the Red Cross. It read: “I am at Guantanamo Bay ”, the paper said.

Since then, the family has received four letters - all written in a mix of street slang, rap phrases and Cockney.

It was only when five other British detainees were released from Camp Delta in March that the coded letters became clear.

All five alleged they had been routinely assaulted, forcibly shaved, sprayed with Mace, verbally and physically abused, and housed in appalling conditions.

In his letter of 24 March last year, Martin writes: “The bully boy loves to be the bully boy, chats enough crap and giving it large. Expecting man n' man to bend over so as them there can give to man n' man real good. Boy must be thinking man n' man is some kind of rent boy”.

Bahraini Royal Abused

The revelation of extraordinary coded letters coincided with other allegations about the abuse of two Bahraini citizens held at Guantanmo.

The Gulf kingdom said Friday it would formally ask its close ally the United States to investigate allegations US troops tortured a Bahraini detainee at Guantanamo Bay .

The Bahrain Center for Human Rights said  Saturday, August 7, at least the pair,  including a member of the royal family, was subjected to torture and abuse.

It said the allegations are based on a report by three Britons and a phone call by an Arab prisoner freed recently from the US detention camp, the Associated Press news agency reported.

The rights group's president, Nabeel Rajab, identified the Bahrainis as Juma'a Mohammed Al-Dossary and Sheik Salman bin Ebrahim bin Mohammed Al-Khalifa.

Family members of both men, and four other Bahrainis detained in Guantanamo , said they were all performing humanitarian work in Pakistan when mercenaries from that country captured them and handed them over to US forces, Rajab told the AP.

They were later sent to the detention facility in Cuba , where they are being held on suspicion of links to Al-Qaeda.

Rajab said he had spoken with the freed Arab prisoner, who reported Sheik Salman, a distant relative of Bahrain's monarch, Sheik Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, had been treated “very badly” in Guantanamo.

There are about 600 inmates at Guantanamo Bay , most of them have been held for more than two years without access to lawyers or charges pressed against them.

Most of the detainees were captured in Afghanistan while American troops were fighting the Taliban forces there.

Amnesty International condemned in May last year the US breaches of international law in Guantanamo under the cloak of its so-called global war on terror.

The New York-based Human Rights Watch had further said that Bush must promptly investigate and address charges of torture of suspected the Guantanamo detainees or risk criminal prosecution.