“Every time I got into a room, I had the urge to reorganize it the same way as my Guantanamo Bay cell. All I knew was a life behind bars.”
Mohamedou Ould Slahi.
This is what he stated ( https://pen-international.org/news/interview-mohamedou-ould-slahi-2018 ) when released in October 2016, after a nearly 14 year torturous stay at Guantanamo Bay, the dreaded United States military prison.
“Guantanamo Diary “is an account by Mohamedu Ould Slahi of his unlawful detention at Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp.
The diary describes the inhuman torture he suffered at this place after being arrested in 2001 at the behest of US Government by Mauritanian authorities after he went in for voluntary questioning.
Transferred to prisons in Jordan and Afghanistan before being shifted to Guantanamo, Slahi describes the shocking and cruel torture inflicted on him during his 14 year old stay there suffering daily mental and physical torment.
Slahi was a victim of ‘Special Project” which authorised enhanced means of abuse which included sleep deprivation, beatings, extreme isolation, frigid rooms, shackling in stress positions, and threats against both Slahi and his mother.
Slahi’s book, the first and only memoir by a then still-imprisoned Guantánamo prisoner, was published in January 2015 — with numerous redactions — from a 466-page handwritten manuscript.
A chilling account of inhumane treatment in today’s world.
An eye-opener which is surely incredible.
Today, Guantanamo Bay yet stands open.
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order in January 2018 to keep the prison camp open indefinitely.
Preeta Chag 