Located at the U.S. Military Base at Guantanamo Bay at the southeastern tip of Cuba, Guantanamo Prison is notorious for its abuse scandals. All along, many former detainees have exposed the scandal there.
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the GUANTANAMO Prison by the US military, on the 11th local time, Mansour Adami, who had been imprisoned there for 14 years, recalled his painful experience in those years in an interview with the US media.
In 2002, 18-year-old Yemeni youth Mansour Adami was arrested on suspicion of al-Qaida and transferred to Guantanamo prison while studying and studying in Afghanistan. But what he didn't expect was that from then on, he began a 14-year hellish life.
American anchor Mahdi Hassan: I can't imagine what it was like to spend 14 years in prison, let alone Guantanamo Prison, how did you spend those years of horror, what did you experience, how did you survive?
Mansour Adami, former detainee at Guantanamo: Interrogators can do whatever they want in prison, they perform what they call "intensive interrogation," what we often call "reinforcement abuse," and Guantanamo becomes a place to experiment with humans and detainees.
According to previous reports by the US media, the so-called "enhanced interrogation" is the beautification of the abuse of prisoners by the US side. Previously, the CIA was exposed to the fact that detainees were often tortured to extract confessions, beats, enemas, and even sexual assault.
A few days ago, the British "Guardian" published an open letter from Khalid Qasim, a Yemeni citizen, who has been detained in Guantanamo Prison without trial since 2002. In his letter, he called on the U.S. government to restore his freedom, while also revealing details of the abuses. He states that torture is not isolated in the interrogation room at Guantánamo, but runs through the daily lives of detainees. Punching and kicking is commonplace, and mental torture is deliberately inflicted by interrogators. As Mansour Adami has said, the wounds they have suffered are difficult to heal.
Mansour Adami, former detainee at Guantanamo Prison: We have a lot of mental, physical, and psychological trauma that will probably never heal.
Despite the continued exposure of these gross human rights violations and the attacks of international public opinion, the infamous prison remains unclosed. The U.S. government has also failed to hold those abusive, much less apologize or compensate those who have been harmed.
Mansour Adami, former detainee at Guantánamo: Of course, the U.S. government has not apologized to us, has not compensated us, not even acknowledged what it has done to us. We are still living in the shame of that experience, as if we were continuing to be in Guantanamo Prison. Of course, we are also always in the pursuit of fairness and justice.
Source: CCTV news client