Man shatters US illusion of Gitmo rosiness

A Guantanamo Bay ex-inmate tells Press TV of his experience under 'medieval' torture amid US efforts to paint a rosy picture of the prison.

A confidential Defense Department review recently claimed that "torture" has no place in the Cuba-based military prison as Guantanamo detainees are treated "humanely and in accordance with the Geneva Conventions ".

Binyam Mohamed ---who was arrested in Pakistan in 2002 on suspicion of plotting a string of bomb blast in the US and spent more than five years in the controversial detention center ---, however, begs to differ.

"I have been through an experience that I never thought to encounter in my darkest nightmares. Before this ordeal, 'torture' was an abstract word to me, I could never have imagined that I would be its victim," said the Ethiopian-born British citizen.

Mohamed said he was surreptitiously "tortured in medieval ways", all orchestrated by the United States Government, Press TV reported

On Monday, the former terror suspect returned to Britain a free man, after the United States found him to be innocent and dropped all charges against him last year.

Binyam Mohamed, who was illegally detained and tortured in Gitmo, has filed two civil lawsuits in Washington.
"It is still difficult for me to believe that I was abducted, hauled from one country to the next and tortured in medieval ways. While I want to recover and put it all as far in the past as I can, I also know I have an obligation to the people who still remain in those torture chambers," he said. More

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