During his trial, a Guantanamo detainee details his tortures in hands of CIA

A US Senate survey on the use of torture by the CIA after the attacks of 11 September 2001 corroborates the testimony of Majid Khan.

Le Monde with AFP

Majid Khan is the first inmate of Guantanamo Military Prison to publicly tell the tortures in the hands of the CIA. This Pakistani of the Guantanamo Military Prison detailed the tortures that he suffered for three years in the hands of the American intelligence agency, during his trial before a military court which sentenced it, Friday, October 29, to 26 years of detention. But considering an agreement with the judge when he pleaded guilty, he could be released next year.

Former messenger of Al-Qaeda, Majid Khan, 41, has spared no details to the military judges when they told them on Thursday to have been beaten, sexually assaulted and subjected to drowning simulated after his capture in Pakistan In 2003.

In a letter of 39 pages read at the hearing, Majid Khan, who grew up in Pakistan before emigrating to the United States with his family, told having been suspended by chains for several days in a row, Nude and without eating, in non-secret prison window cells of the CIA in unidentified countries.

Bospel between 2003 and 2006 between several secret sites, he described brutal interrogations, plunged the coated face in iced water baths, the head held under the water until he speaks.

“They struck me until I begs them to stop. The worst thing was not to know when the blows were going to come, or where they would leave.”

His interrogators threatened to attack his family in the United States and to violate his sister. His glasses, without which he is almost blind, were broken. “I had to wait three years before receiving a new pair.”

Private sleep, Forced Lavements

Several nights of sleep deprivation have left it dazed. “I remember having hallucinations, see a giant cow and lizard. I had lost all contact with reality.”

/Media reports.