One inmate testified that agency personnel stripped him naked, bent him over a chair, and injected a nutritional shake into his anus. Read more at straitstimes.com.
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – Over the years, the CIA’s use of waterboarding and other forms of torture in its secret overseas prisons after the Sept 11, 2001, attacks has been revealed in government leaks, testimony and a damning Senate investigation.
Dr Sondra Crosby, a court-approved expert on torture and other trauma, testified in a long-running defence effort by lawyers for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, who is accused of orchestrating the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole. “This was a very, very distressing painful, shameful stigmatising event,” Dr Crosby testified. “He experienced it as a violent rape, sexual assault.”A 2013 picture of Mohammed Ahmed Ghulam Rabbani and Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbani at Guant‡namo Bay in Cuba. PHOTO: NYTIMES
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