One released prisoner told Amnesty International that his hours-long
interrogations at Guantánamo were "like torture". Another, a taxi driver,
Sayed Abassin, told the organization that he had been arrested en route from
Kabul to Khost in April 2002, despite explaining that he was just a driver and
did not know his passengers. An apparent victim of circumstance, he spent more
than a year in US custody, first in Afghanistan and then in Guantánamo. He
says that at Bagram Air Base he was held in handcuffs and shackles, kept in
24-hour lighting, deprived of sleep, not given enough food, not allowed to
talk or look at other detainees, and forced to stand or kneel for hours. He
was finally released from Guantánamo in April 2003, having never had access to
a lawyer, court of law or other legal process. He has received no compensation
for his ordeal.
There were no human rights for me in that year, Abassin told Amnesty
International. Other released prisoners claimed there were more innocent
people held at Guantánamo, arbitrarily arrested and held without evidence of
wrongdoing.
whole article can be read from:
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGAMR511182003