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ribonucleic:
The new report provides the most comprehensive account to date of life in a secret CIA prison, as well as new information regarding 38 possible detainees. The report explains that these prisoners’ treatment by the CIA constitutes enforced disappearance, a practice that is absolutely prohibited under international law. 
 
Marwan Jabour was arrested by Pakistani authorities in May 2004 in Pakistan and held for more than a month at a secret facility in Islamabad operated by both US and Pakistani personnel, during which time he was badly abused. In June, he was flown to another secret prison, which he believes was in Afghanistan, where all or nearly all of the personnel were American. 
 
His clothes were taken from him when he arrived, and he was left completely naked for a month and a half, including during questioning by women interrogators and filming. He was chained tightly to the wall of his small cell so that he could not stand up, placed in painful stress positions so that he had difficulty breathing, and told that if he did not cooperate he would be put in a suffocating “dog box.” 
 
During the more than two years that he was held in this secret prison, Jabour spent nearly all of his time alone in a windowless cell, with little human contact besides his captors. Although he worried incessantly about his wife and three young daughters, he was not allowed even to send them a letter to reassure them that he was alive. 
 
“It was a grave,” Jabour later told Human Rights Watch. “I felt like my life was over.” 
 


http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/02/26/usint15408_txt.htm

militarymuscle69:

--- Quote from: ribonucleic on February 27, 2007, 03:39:20 PM ---The new report provides the most comprehensive account to date of life in a secret CIA prison, as well as new information regarding 38 possible detainees. The report explains that these prisoners’ treatment by the CIA constitutes enforced disappearance, a practice that is absolutely prohibited under international law. 
 
Marwan Jabour was arrested by Pakistani authorities in May 2004 in Pakistan and held for more than a month at a secret facility in Islamabad operated by both US and Pakistani personnel, during which time he was badly abused. In June, he was flown to another secret prison, which he believes was in Afghanistan, where all or nearly all of the personnel were American. 
 
His clothes were taken from him when he arrived, and he was left completely naked for a month and a half, including during questioning by women interrogators and filming. He was chained tightly to the wall of his small cell so that he could not stand up, placed in painful stress positions so that he had difficulty breathing, and told that if he did not cooperate he would be put in a suffocating “dog box.” 
 
During the more than two years that he was held in this secret prison, Jabour spent nearly all of his time alone in a windowless cell, with little human contact besides his captors. Although he worried incessantly about his wife and three young daughters, he was not allowed even to send them a letter to reassure them that he was alive. 
 
“It was a grave,” Jabour later told Human Rights Watch. “I felt like my life was over.” 
 


http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/02/26/usint15408_txt.htm

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oh poor baby, prison was a pain in the ass? To bad. Human rights watch is a sham

ribonucleic:

--- Quote from: militarymuscle69 on February 28, 2007, 01:25:40 PM ---oh poor baby, prison was a pain in the ass? To bad. Human rights watch is a sham

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LOL

So which is it? He should expect to be tortured in American custody? Or he wasn't tortured because it was just a lie made up by Human Rights Watch to make money?  :)

militarymuscle69:

--- Quote from: ribonucleic on February 28, 2007, 01:28:56 PM ---LOL

So which is it? He should expect to be tortured in American custody? Or he wasn't tortured because it was just a lie made up by Human Rights Watch to make money?  :)

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Oh no, I believe almost every word he said. We might inconvenience people in custody but we don't torture. According to Human rights watch if we don't give them all the sleep they want, individual climate controls, satin bed sheets, steak and lobster etc.. we are torturing. Just like in prisons in the states. Prison shouldn't be comfortable especially in holding enemies.

ribonucleic:

--- Quote from: militarymuscle69 on February 28, 2007, 01:32:21 PM ---Oh no, I believe almost every word he said. We might inconvenience people in custody but we don't torture. According to Human rights watch if we don't give them all the sleep they want, individual climate controls, satin bed sheets, steak and lobster etc.. we are torturing. Just like in prisons in the states. Prison shouldn't be comfortable especially in holding enemies.

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I respectfully suggest that there is a middle ground between satin sheets and being chained to the wall so that you're unable to stand up straight.  ::)

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