Majid Khan was sentenced on Friday to 26 years in prison, after pleading guilty for his help made to Al-Qaeda in 2002. But he suffered torture between the CIA agent hands.
Le Monde with AFP
US Army officers called on Sunday, October 31 to Clemence with a Pakistanis detained in Guantanamo Prison and described the tortures he suffered for three years in the hands of the CIA. Majid Khan was sentenced on Friday to 26 years in prison, after pleading guilty for his assistance provided to Al-Qaida in 2002. The day before his conviction, this 41-year-old man told in a letter read at the hearing. He had been raped, beaten and subjected to brutal interrogations.
In A letter unveiled by the New York Times , the seven soldiers, who were part of the jury of eight people at the trial of Mr. Khan, denounce this treatment as” a stain on the moral fiber of the ‘America “. “The members of the jury listed below recommend leniency in the case of Majid Shoukat Khan, declare the officers, including six officers of the Army and the Navy and a Navy, who signed the letter with their number of jury, remaining anonymous.
“Mr. Khan has committed serious crimes against the United States and their partners. He pleaded guilty of these crimes and assumed responsibility for his actions. In addition, he expressed remorse for the impact on The victims and their families, “they write. The possible impact of this letter is not clear, but the position adopted by all members of the jury, with the exception of one, is unusual.
“I reject Al-Qaida”
On the basis of an earlier advocacy agreement – whose jurors were not aware – Mr. Khan could be released next year after spending 19 years in custody in the United States. “Mr. Khan has been subjected to physical and psychological abuses far beyond approved reinforced interrogation techniques,” deplore the military in their letter. “These ill-treatment have had no practical value in terms of information or any other tangible advantage for US interests.”
“Today, at the age of 41, he has remorse and no longer represents an extremist threat,” they add. “I am no longer the young impressionable and vulnerable child I was 20 years ago,” said Guantanamo prisoner at the court. “I reject Al-Qaida, I reject terrorism.” His testimony about torture is supported by the US Senate’s own investigation on the use of torture by the CIA after the attacks of September 11, 2001.