Majid Khan details being waterboarded, beaten, deprived of sleep and sexually assaulted at a number of undisclosed overseas prisons
By MEE staff
Washington
Published date: 29 October 2021 18:19 UTC | Last update:8 months 22 mins ago
A Guantanamo Bay prisoner has described openly for the first time his treatment – widely considered torture – at the hands of the US government during his detention at a network of overseas CIA prisons, saying he was left terrified and hallucinating from techniques that Washington long sought to keep secret.
Former Maryland resident Majid Khan, 41, became the first Guantanamo detainee to describe the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used on him by CIA interrogators at overseas prisons known as “black sites”.
“I thought I was going to die,” he told a panel of military jurors on Thursday, as reported by the Associated Press.
Khan detailed a number of techniques used on him, including being suspended naked from a ceiling beam for long periods, being deprived of sleep for days, and having his head held under water to the point of nearly drowning, only to be waterboarded when interrogators let him up.
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