Guantánamo Bay prisoner's letter claims he was witness to murders

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Tania Branigan
Saturday October 2, 2004
The Guardian

A British man held at Guantánamo Bay has alleged that he saw US soldiers kill two men in Afghanistan.

Moazzam Begg, 36, who has been detained for 2 years without charge or trial, complains in the first letter from a serving inmate to describe severe mistreatment of having suffered "vindictive torture" and death threats, and implies that he has made a false confession.

His lawyers said yesterday that they believed he had been held in solitary confinement at the US military base in Cuba because he had seen the killing. He has had no contact with fellow prisoners since his arrival almost 600 days ago.

Although former detainees have alleged that they suffered extensive abuse and torture at Bagram in Afghanistan and Guantánamo, mail from the camp is heavily censored.

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