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CAIRO,
December 11 (IslamOnline.net) – In what is seen as the latest
evidence that abuse continues unabated in the notorious Guantanamo
detention camp, a British detainee told a visiting Foreign Office
official he was tortured by his US jailers, reported a leading British
daily on Saturday, December 11.
Martin
Mubanga, a former motor cycle courier, said the American interrogators
kept him shackled for so long that he wet himself and then was forced
to clean up his own urine, reported The Guardian.
In
a letter to the family, a Foreign Office official recalls that Mubanga
said “that in another incident in June, he had been put in a room
with the temperature at 97F ... he knew the temperature because he had
seen the dial.”
The
British detainee also complained that one interrogator stood on his
hair and that he was kept chained to the floor by his feet for an hour
during the welfare visit, added the letter.
Like
three other compatriots and some 550 non-US citizens, Mubanga has been
kept at the Guantanamo base for years without
charges or access to lawyers.
Similar
abuse charges were made in October in a letter from another British
detainee, Moazzam Begg.
He
wrote to his lawyer that he was abused
in Guantanamo and witnessed the deaths of two other detainees at the
hands of US military personnel.
In
August, Martin Malaga, another British detainee, unveiled 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.
Mubanga’s
letter revelations come a few days after FBI agents spoke out against
detainees abuse in the detention camp.
In
a July letter to Maj. Gen. Donald Ryder, the Army's provost marshal,
FBI counterterrorism official Thomas Harrington confirmed that FBI
agents saw military interrogators use abusive tactics on
prisoners at Guantanamo.
The
New York Times revealed October 17 that uncooperative
detainees in Guantanamo were regularly tortured by US guards
and subject to coercive treatment.
The
International Committee of the Red Cross has accused the United States
of committing “war
crimes” in Guantanamo.
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