Guantánamo man's family release 'torture' dossier

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· Relatives of UK resident publicise allegations
· Family of Libyan national release detailed dossier

Vikram Dodd
Saturday August 11, 2007
The Guardian

~snip~ He is a Libyan national whose family fled to the UK after their trade unionist father was murdered by the Gadafy regime in 1980.

Mr Deghayes was captured in Pakistan - his family claim by bounty hunters - after the US attacked Afghanistan. They say he had gone there to start a business exporting dried fruit to a leading supermarket.

In the dossier, he claims to have seen US guards kill people, witnessed prisoners being partially drowned, and saw the Qur'an thrown into a toilet by a US guard.

The new claims come after earlier Guardian reports of Mr Deghayes's ill treatment, including allegations that he was left blinded in one eye after a soldier plunged his finger into it, and claims that he had human excrement smeared on his face. ~snip~

http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,,2146600,0...