Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo by Murat Kurnaz (part 1) | Extracts | guardian.co.uk Books

"Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo by Murat Kurnaz (part 1)

A Turkish citizen born and raised in Germany, Murat Kurnaz was only 19 when he was arrested without explanation in Pakistan in October 2001. Handed over to the US, he spent the next 1,600 days enduring the brutal life of a prisoner at Guantanamo and various forms of torture, before being released without explanation or apology in August 2006. Here he describes the early days in his cage in Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay"

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